The District government has withdrawn its objection to a request from a courtroom adversary to release certain confidential documents about an internal investigation of the city’s lottery contract.

In a court filing late Monday, the District said it had dropped its objections to an effort by Eric Payne, a former city contracting officer, to force the disclosure of a pair of reports by Robert Andary, who was an investigator in the D.C. chief financial officer’s office.