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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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  • Power of a State Legislature to Rescind Its Ratification of a Constitutional Amendment

    Power of a State Legislature to Rescind Its Ratification of a Constitutional Amendment The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/20956/download.

    2/15/1977

  • Date of "Promulgation" of Law Enforcement Assistance Administration Regulations

    Federal Register Act—Date of "Promulgation" of Law Enforcement Assistance Administration Regulations The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/20951/download.

    2/10/1977

  • Propriety of Appearance of a Former Justice Department Attorney in a Condemnation Case

    Conflict of Interest—Propriety of Appearance of a Former Justice Department Attorney in a Condemnation Case The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/20946/download.

    1/31/1977

  • Propriety of Using a Leased Airplane for Personal and Official Purposes

    Conflict of Interest—Propriety of Using a Leased Airplane for Personal and Official Purposes The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/20941/download.

    1/29/1977

  • Litigation Involving a Corporation Owned by a Government Attorney

    Conflict of Interest—Litigation Involving a Corporation Owned by Government Attorney The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/20936/download.

    1/28/1977

  • Acceptance of Voluntary Service in the White House

    The White House Office—Acceptance of Voluntary Service (31 U.S.C. § 665(b)) The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/21296/download.

    1/27/1977

  • Legality of a Certain Proposed Composition of a Multiemployer Pension Fund Board of Trustees

    Legality of a Certain Proposed Composition of a Multiemployer Pension Fund Board of Trustees The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/20931/download.

    1/27/1977

  • Membership of White House Staff Member on Democratic National Committee

    Hatch Act (5 U.S.C. § 7324)—Membership of White House Staff Member on Democratic National Committee The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/21301/download.

    1/27/1977

  • Representation of Corporation by Law Firm With Which Former United States Attorney Is Associated

    Conflict of Interest—Former United States Attorney The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/20926/download.

    1/27/1977

  • Provision of Military Aircraft and Hospital Corpsman to Former President Ford

    Presidential Transition Act (3 U.S.C. § 102 note)—Provision of Military Aircraft and Hospital Corpsman to a Former President (31 U.S.C. § 638) The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/21291/download.

    1/26/1977

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