The OLC's Opinions

Opinions published by the OLC, including those released in response to our FOIA lawsuit

This Reading Room is a comprehensive database of published opinions written by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). It contains the approximately 1,400 opinions published by the OLC in its online database and the opinions produced in Freedom of Information Act litigation brought by the Knight Institute, including opinions about the Pentagon Papers, the Civil Rights Era, and the War Powers Act. It also contains indexes of unclassified OLC opinions written between 1945 and February 15, 1994 (these indexes were created by the OLC and intended to be comprehensive). We have compiled those indexes into a single list here and in .csv format here. This Reading Room also contains an index of all classified OLC opinions issued between 1974 and 2021, except those classified or codeword-classified at a level higher than Top Secret (the OLC created this index, too, and intended it to be comprehensive).

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11/11/1974
Protection of property of Palestine Liberation Organization and League of Arab States.

4/28/2020
11/11/1974
Reviewed the duplicate of [White House Counsel Buchen]'s confidential statement of employment and financial interests in the light of job description form and the attachment thereto.

4/28/2020
11/11/1974
SBA loans to mushroom growers and processors.

4/28/2020
11/8/1974
Mississippi Junior Colleges - deferral of Federal funds

4/28/2020
11/4/1974
Standards of Conduct--LEAA Employees' Teaching at American University

4/28/2020
10/23/1974
Authority of the FBI to enter into indemnity agreements

4/28/2020
10/17/1974
Application of the conflict-of-interest law, 18 U.S.C. § 208, to a White House employee who is one of the beneficiaries, and one of the trustees, of a testamentary trust with a total value of approximately $250,000, most of which consists of real estate a

4/28/2020
10/10/1974
Written expression of the views I have previously conveyed concerning the applicability of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to budget authority enacted, and impoundments effected, prior to July 12,1974, the date the Act was signed by the President.

4/28/2020
10/10/1974
Pocket Veto

4/28/2020
10/9/1974
Exclusion of aliens in the military who have violated 10 U.S.C. 885, 886, or 887 from reentering the United States by virtue of 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(2).

4/28/2020