Unusual Free Exercise Assertion In FOIA Case Rejected

In Banks v. Department of Justice, (D DC, March 26, 2010), the D.C. federal district court found unpersuasive an unusual argument in a Freedom of Information Act case. Plaintiff, seeking various records about himself and others argued that "his religion, Thelema, mandates that he access the records to purge all the negative energy from his life in a religious ritual." Plaintiff, a Lakota Sioux Native American, sought the information from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.