Opinion ID: 697751
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Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Channelized Documents

Text: 32 The last set of documents subject to an exemption 7 challenge are documents cross-filed (channelized) into the FSM file from other FBI investigation files. The government argues, citing FBI v. Abramson, 456 U.S. 615, 626, 102 S.Ct. 2054, 2061-62, 72 L.Ed.2d 376 (1982), that because these documents were exempt in the files in which they were originally compiled, the district court should not have ordered their disclosure even if the court ordered the disclosure of the file in which they were channelized. 33 The government did not raise this argument to the district court in its summary judgment motion; it first raised the argument in support of reconsideration of the summary judgment ruling. The district court refused to reconsider because the government failed to show why it could not have presented the argument to the court before summary judgment. The district court did not abuse its discretion in declining to consider an argument raised for the first time on reconsideration without a good excuse. Schanen v. Department of Justice, 762 F.2d 805, 807, 808 (9th Cir.1985), modified on other grounds, 798 F.2d 348 (9th Cir.1985). We thus affirm the district court's rulings on the channelized documents. 34