Judge Orders FBI To Search Further For Saudi Sarasota Documents

March 31, 2014


A federal judge Monday denied the FBI's request to dismiss a Freedom Of Information lawsuit pertaining to a Saudi family that lived in Sarasota and left just before the 9/11 Attacks.

Instead, U.S. District Court Judge William J. Zloch granted a motion by Fort Lauderdale's
BrowardBulldog, the news organization that started the lawsuit, to get the federal agency to do a better search.

In mid-March, Zloch allowed the Herald-Tribune and the Miami Herald to intervene in the case by filing their own "friend-of-the-court" brief saying how a further search for documents surrounding this Florida event, which may be tied to 9/11, would be in the public's interest.

Judge Zloch "is not letting them get away with what they wanted to do, which was to dismiss the case, without looking for the documents that we had sought," said Thomas Julin,
Broward Bulldog's attorney.


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