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This means that you have to file a lawsuit within [deleted] years of the date you made your request

You are again obfuscating the issue. Most civil statutes of limitation start ticking their clocks at the time of the injury or of the plaintiff becoming aware of his injury. In a Freedom of Information request the initiating event is not an injury but the failure of a governmental agency to follow the law.

The STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS is satisfied on the FIRST FILING OF A LAWSUIT. Once the filing has been made, the statute of limitations has been met regardless of how long it takes for the suit to wend its way through the court system.

Now, because of defects in the descriptions of the documents Lahr had requested that original request for documents has been voided... and his NEW request, with the corrected information, starts the FOIA statute of limitations running again. It is as though the first request did not occur. If the NTSB complies satisfactorily with his request, then a suit will be unnecessary. If it does not, then Lahr needs only file again.

As someone who is involved with legal issues on a daily basis, I can say, that most of the debate here is simply a waste of time. (Something Assmo and Rokke are very happy to see)

The point of the whole thing, and the basis of this thread, which I started, is to report on the progress or lack thereof of Capt' Lahr's attempts to pry from the NTSB that which they seem intent on keeping to themselves.

Personally, and this is just an opinion, I doubt there is any data in fact, upon which NTSB or CIA calculated their respective cartoons.

What will they say if ordered to produce this supposed data?

Sorry, we made it all up?

"Now, because of defects in the descriptions of the documents Lahr had requested that original request for documents has been voided... and his NEW request, with the corrected information, starts the FOIA statute of limitations running again. It is as though the first request did not occur."

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