A district court held that FWS must comply with a FOIA request for information from its Law Enforcement Management Information System (LEMIS), which, among other things, the agency uses to track…
A district court held that EPA's Office of Inspector General (OIG) need not turn over under FOIA certain documents concerning a potential violation of federal “revolving-door” prohibitions by…
The Eighth Circuit reversed a lower court decision that livestock farm groups lacked standing to bar EPA from releasing their members' personal information in response to environmental groups…
The Ninth Circuit held that FDA properly withheld certain information concerning egg-production farms in Texas that was requested by an animal rights group under FOIA. FOIA Exemption 4 applies to…
A district court denied a conservative nonprofit advocacy group's motion for spoliation sanctions against EPA for its mishandling of the group's FOIA request, but nevertheless scolded…
A district court held that livestock farm groups lack standing to bar EPA from releasing their members' personal information—including the physical address and other operational details about…
A West Virginia court held that the state's environmental agency violated FOIA when it denied an environmental group's request for all coal mining related discharge monitoring reports…
The D.C. Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part a lower court decision rejecting an animal rights group's FOIA request for records concerning National Institutes of Health (NIH)…
A district court held that EPA mostly complied with a think tank's FOIA request seeking information related to former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's use of a secondary email account.…
A district court held that a nonprofit law firm may conduct limited discovery in connection with its FOIA request for records regarding any EPA rule or regulation for which public notice has not…