(February 7, 2018, 12:53 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In a Jan. 31 joint letter brief, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and a small business advocacy group indicated their inability to agree to resolving the remaining issues in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) dispute on the existing court record, opting instead for a bench trial, which a California federal judge had offered in the alternative (American Small Business League v. U.S. Department of Defense, et al., No. 3:14-cv-02166, N.D. Calif.)....