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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Guidelines for Enforcement of Title VI prepared by the Department of Justice.
10/27/2020
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Interpretation of sections 10(a)(2) and 11(b) of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, as those sections relate to the authority of the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts to receive and utilize gifts to the Endow
10/27/2020
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Legality of Contract Nod ‐ 9782 for sales to Metrogas Service (Inc.), a California corporation, during a five‐year term of Government‐owned propane to be produced as an incident to the protection, conservation, maintenance, and testing of Naval Petroleum
10/27/2020
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Views as to whether the Cargo Preference Act would apply to export shipments contemplated by certain proposed amendments to the regulations governing the Commodity Credit Corporation's Export Credit Sales Program (7 C.F.R. § 1438; 30 F.R. 10942)
10/27/2020
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Possibility of conflicts of interest of Dr. Barnaby Keeney
10/27/2020
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Application of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to school‐lunch and other food‐ distribution programs.
10/27/2020
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Department of the Army Personnel Security Clearance Regulation AR 604‐5 dated August 6, 1965.
10/27/2020
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Possible ways of avoiding the tariff on copper.
10/27/2020
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Applicability of Export Control Act to copper.
10/27/2020
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Disposal of Copper from the National Stockpile
10/27/2020