Biden drops lawsuit seeking block of memoir tapes after court loss
Former President Joe Biden on Friday dropped his lawsuit attempting to bar the release of his memoir tapes to the public, after an appeals court ruled in favor of releasing them.Biden’s attorneys filed the notice of voluntary dismissal, days after a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against his bid to block the release of dozens of hours of audio recordings and interview transcripts he made while working on his 2017 memoir, Promise Me, Dad. Advertisement The recordings and transcripts have been the subject of legal battles for years; Biden has sought to block the Justice Department from releasing them to the public.
- ▪Former President Joe Biden on Friday dropped his lawsuit attempting to bar the release of his memoir tapes to the public, after an appeals court ruled in favor of releasing them.Biden’s attorneys filed the notice of voluntary dismissal, day
- ▪Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against his bid to block the release of dozens of hours of audio recordings and interview transcripts he made while working on his 2017 memoir, Promise Me, Dad.
- ▪Advertisement The recordings and transcripts have been the subject of legal battles for years; Biden has sought to block the Justice Department from releasing them to the public.
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Former President Joe Biden on Friday dropped his lawsuit attempting to bar the release of his memoir tapes to the public, after an appeals court ruled in favor of releasing them.Biden’s attorneys filed the notice of voluntary dismissal, days after a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against his bid to block the release of dozens of hours of audio recordings and interview transcripts he made while working on his 2017 memoir, Promise Me, Dad.
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