Time: Mon Oct 28 22:16:01 1996
To: libertylaw@www.ultimate.org
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: FOIA requests for laws & regulations
Cc:
Bcc:
<snip>
>Could this FOIA letter be used in a state to get their authority for
>creating a martial/statutory environment, and declaring war on we the people???
>
>Did you all see this msg?
>
>Dave
My recent reading of an ACLU
publication on FOIA seems to
recall a statement to the effect
that you cannot FOIA an existing
law, since it has already been
published and is available in
the federal depository libraries,
so there is no FOIA remedy in
that case. You must FOIA laws
and/or statutes which do not exist,
and then force the United States
to admit, on record, that they
do not. This is my main method
of using FOIA for compelling
production of laws/regs that do
not exist; I already know that
they do not exist, before I file
the FOIA. Otherwise, it is very
difficult to prove that something
does not exist, e.g. regs for
18 U.S.C. 3231, or the Jury Selection
and Service, or the Buck Act.
/s/ Paul Mitchell
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>>Date: Wed, 23 Oct 96 06:36:33
>>From: <73622.1250@compuserve.com>
>>Subject: piml] Automatic State FOI Letter Generator Now Available
>>To: blindcopyreceiver:;;;@compuserve.com;
>>Cc:
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>><<snip cc: list and Internet stuff>>
>>
>>
>>From: freematt@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)
>>Subject: Automatic State FOI Letter Generator Now Available
>>
>>From: Student Press Law Center <splc@SPLC.ORG>
>>Subject: Automatic State FOI Letter Generator Now Available
>>
>>
>>The Student Press Law Center is pleased to announce the completion of its
>>Web-based automatic, fill-in-the-blanks, STATE open records law request
>>letter generator (what a mouthful). You provide the state to which your FOI
>>request is being sent, our generator will generate a request letter
>>complete with the specific cite, time allowances and penalties of the that
>>state's open records law.
>>
>>Give it a try -- it's pretty cool. (And bookmark it for the future).
>>
>>The Student Press Law Center Website:
>>
>>http://www.splc.org
>>
>>You'll find the generator in the Access to Information section of our
>>On-line Legal Clinic.
>>
>>
>>The SPLC wants to thank Gregg Leslie and our summer legal interns, Tammi
>>Goldstein and Paul Kanter, for their help with this project.
>>
>>Mike Hiestand
>>Staff Attorney
>>
>>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>>STUDENT PRESS LAW CENTER
>>1101 Wilson Blvd., Suite 1910
>>Arlington, VA, USA 22209-2248
>>(703) 807-1904 e-mail:splc@splc.org
>>http://www.splc.org
>>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> God Bless America!
> Dave in Tulsa
>
>
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