Resolving a transparency catch-22, a federal judge dismissed a case about legal opinions from the Justice Department but affirmed the power of courts to intervene in more specific circumstances.
Read moreHighlighting unprecedented pitfalls that the U.S. Census Bureau faces for its 2020 count, the NAACP brought a federal complaint Thursday to access records on the bureau’s preparations.
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Republican Congressman Walter Jones of North Carolina claims in a federal lawsuit that the Defense Department continues to conceal details about an April 2000 plane crash that killed 19 Marines.
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Hoping to shed light on reports that there is a new focus at the Justice Department against affirmative-action admissions policies at U.S. colleges and universities, The New York Times has taken its document hunt to court.
Read moreNearly three years after the Senate chronicled the CIA’s torture program, a federal judge ordered the government Wednesday to disclose certain documents referenced in the report.
Read moreThe Sierra Club brought a federal complaint against the Department of Homeland Security for refusing to disclose plans for the proposed wall at the Mexican border.
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A government watchdog filed suit Monday to expose public records on a taxpayer-funded trip Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin took with his wife took to see the historic eclipse.
Read moreA federal judge rejected the CIA’s request to reconsider a court order that it respond to a Freedom of Information Act request on the dollar amount of U.S. intelligence support for Israel.
Read moreFederal agencies must start producing records on President Donald Trump’s travel ban to avoid a court order that would require a speedier release of documents, a federal judge said Thursday.
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President Donald Trump has directed the government to investigate his theories on voter fraud but is withholding public records on the commission, two policy groups claim in a federal complaint.
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A panel of federal judges has refused the Homeland Security Department’s request to consolidate 13 Freedom of Information Act lawsuits from the ACLU, seeking information on how President Trump’s travel ban is being enforced across the country.
Read moreA leading environmental organization filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy on Monday, claiming the agency illegally withheld documents that would show bias in favor of traditional fossil fuels while conducting a study on the reliability of the U.S. electricity grid.
Read moreThe editor of a prominent law blog filed a federal complaint Friday to find out why President Donald Trump claimed, without supporting evidence, that the majority of terrorism convicts since 9/11 are foreign-born.
Read moreAccusing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of withholding ethics documents regarding its chief Scott Pruitt, California’s attorney general on Friday sued the regulator for failing to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request.
Read moreAdding a new wrinkle to litigation over the 2012 U.S. consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya, a federal judge put a spotlight Wednesday on emails sent by three aides to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Read moreBuzzFeed investigative reporter Jason Leopold brought a federal complaint Friday to pry loose government records that could shed more light on conflicting accounts of how Russian President Vladimir Putin’s former media czar died in a Washington hotel two years ago.
Read moreA 90-year-old Filipino woman filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday to wrest away records she needs to secure a military benefit she claims to be owed for bolstering allied efforts in the Pacific during World War II.
Read moreThe Defense Department does not have to produce records related to its handling of classified material allegedly disclosed in a bestseller about the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
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