Case Summary:

Radar Online LLC v. Federal Bureau of Investigation is a Freedom of Information Act appeal in which Radar Online LLC and journalist James Robertson challenge the FBI’s withholding of records about financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex‑trafficking investigation and prosecution in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, docket number 24‑1964, where the case was argued on January 28, 2026.

At the lower‑court level, Radar Online and Robertson sued the FBI in the Southern District of New York (case No. 1:17‑cv‑03956, Judge Paul G. Gardephe), alleging that the Bureau failed to timely respond to their 2017 FOIA request for records relating to Epstein and improperly withheld documents under various FOIA exemptions. In a 2023 memorandum opinion, the district court granted the FBI’s motion for summary judgment in part ...