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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Showing 2011–2020 of 2202
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Views on the proposed action of the Civil Aeronautics Board dated July 9, 1965 in Compania Panamena de Aviacion, S.A., ("COPA") (Docket 15495).
10/27/2020
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Federal Action to Restore Civil and Political Rights to Convicted Persons
10/27/2020
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Comprehensive Audit Authority of the General Accounting Office
10/27/2020
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Reference to State of which nominee is a resident upon submission of a nomination to the Senate.
10/27/2020
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Authority of the President to use the Armed Forces of the United States in North Vietnam.
10/27/2020
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Civil Defense Advisory Council
10/27/2020
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Whether, under existing law, employers covered by both Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and Executive Order 10925 must post each of the "equal opportunity" notices required by Title VII and that Executive Order, respectively.
10/27/2020
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Los Angeles Riot
10/27/2020
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Appointment of personnel by the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice.
10/27/2020
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Acceptance of Presidential Library from the University of Texas.
10/27/2020