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).

The Knight Institute will continue updating the reading room with new records. To get alerts when the OLC publishes a new opinion in its database, follow @OLCforthepeople on Twitter.

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6/7/1974
Sale of Information Resulting from Department of Justice Employment

4/28/2020
6/6/1974
Mandatory Urinalysis to Test Drug Dependency [follow-up opinion]

4/28/2020
6/6/1974
Proposed HEW regulation on sex discrimination

4/28/2020
6/6/1974
Whether an individual who is a member of the National Commission for the Review of Federal and State Laws Relating to Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance is eligible to the appointed to the position of Judge of the United States Court of Military Appe

4/28/2020
6/4/1974
Honoraria for Speeches, etc.

4/28/2020
5/28/1974
The Force and Effect of the Opinions of the Attorney General

4/28/2020
5/25/1974
Requests of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives for certain information regarding the President's income tax returns for 1969 and subsequent years.

4/28/2020
5/23/1974
Application of Executive Order 11491 to Federal Attorneys.

4/28/2020
5/15/1974
Mandatory Urinalysis to Test Drug Dependency

4/28/2020
5/13/1974
Department of Justice Historical Records Policy for Discretionary Release under the Freedom of Information Act of Investigatory Files More Than 15 Years Old.

4/28/2020