Since the Attorney General has delegated responsibility for preparing
and rendering opinions to the Office of Legal Counsel, pursuant to
29 U.S.C. 510, there are very few formal opinions of the Attorney
General these days. I counted four in the past ten years. Those
that do appear are published at the beginning of the annual volumes
of _Opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel_.
When this practice was begun in the 1980 volume (published in 1985),
the foreword stated:
Included in Volume 4 are 11 formal Attorney General opinions
issued during 1980. These opinions will eventually appear in
Volume 43 of the Opinions of the Attorney General. In light of
the long interval between volumes in that series (e.g., Volume
42 covers the years 1961 through 1974), the Attorney General has
determined that it would be appropriate and useful to inaugurate
the practice of including formal opinions of the Attorney General
in the annual volumes of Office of Legal Counsel opinions.
The more recent paperbound volumes do not mention a forthcoming Volume
43, but it is probably still scheduled to appear "eventually". Since
formal opinions are issued so infrequently, it will most likely be a
long time before there are enough to fill a volume.
Kent Olson
University of Virginia
kco4f@virginia.edu
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