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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Showing 2001–2010 of 2202
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Guaranties of Obligations of Local Urban Renewal and Public Housing Agencies.
10/27/2020
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District of Columbia Home Rule.
10/27/2020
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Interpretation of recent amendment of 18 U.S.C. 4082
10/27/2020
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The extent to which [the EEOC] may be given access to information obtained by the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity.
10/27/2020
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Assistant U.S. Attorney ‐‐ corporate directorship.
10/27/2020
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Exemption under 18 U.S.C. 208(b) in relation to ownership of securities.
10/27/2020
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Approval of the Supplemental Agreement between [the Navy] and Richfield Oil Corporation concerning the disposition of products resulting from the processing by Richfield of wet natural gas obtained from Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1 (Elk Hills, California
10/27/2020
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Proposed appointment of Francis Keppel as Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
10/27/2020
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D.C. Home Rule‐‐Police Protection
10/27/2020
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Need for further legislation with respect to international traffic in firearms.
10/27/2020