The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 on Friday that federal district courts lack the authority to release materials from grand juries except where authorized by specific federal rules.

The background of this case involved a decades-old grand jury investigation regarding the disappearance of Jesús de Galíndez Suárez, a professor and critic of dictator Rafael Trujillo. Galíndez was believed to have been "kidnapped and flown to the Dominican Republic and there murdered."

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