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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7/5/1974
Federal Salary Act of 1967

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7/4/1974
Request for Application of Executive Privilege (Messrs. Sonnenfeldt, Sutterlin).

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7/3/1974
Obligations of the Federal Financing Bank.

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7/2/1974
Hatch Act and revenue sharing

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6/28/1974
Authority of the Small Business Administration over the membership practices of ethnic fraternal organizations receiving disaster loans.

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6/27/1974
Continuation of Employee Benefits for Corporate Personnel Performing Advanceman Functions

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6/27/1974
Department Policy on Individual Honoraria or other Forms of Compensation from Private Persons or Groups

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6/21/1974
Federal Advisory Committee Act - applicability to ABA Committee on Federal Judiciary

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6/19/1974
President's Power to Extent in which Emergency Board under Railway Labor Act Must Submit its Report

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6/10/1974
Whether the Register of Copyrights has the legal discretion to deny the registration of an application for the renewal of a copyright in which the applicant has asserted two different bases of renewal which the Register considers to be contradictory.

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