A United States federal court has rejected a request by Aaron Greenspan to obtain evidence from President Bola Tinubu and DCI Group in an ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit involving the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
The US District Court for the District of Columbia, in a ruling delivered on October 30, 2026, held that Greenspan’s proposed discovery relating to alleged cyberattacks on his website was not sufficiently relevant to the FOIA dispute before it.
The court also rejected a request by Karl Von Batten, who is not a party to the case, to submit an amicus curiae brief, a legal document filed by a non-party to assist the court in determining a matter.
Additionally, the court denied Greenspan’s request for judicial notice and his motion for summary judgment.
Reacting to the ruling, attorney Christopher W. Carmichael said the decision reinforced the position that the FOIA proceedings could not be used to pursue issues unrelated to the legal questions before the court.
“The Court’s decision makes clear that this Freedom of Information Act proceeding cannot be used to pursue discovery unrelated to the legal questions before it,” Carmichael said.
Another attorney, Oluwole Afolabi, also confirmed that the court had dismissed Greenspan’s motion for summary judgment and rejected the application to introduce an amicus curiae brief.
Despite the latest ruling, the underlying FOIA litigation involving the FBI and DEA remains ongoing.