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.
Read moreA reporter for Radio Free Europe sued the District of Columbia medical examiner’s office, claiming it refuses to hand over the autopsy report of Mikhail Lesin, a former aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin who was mysteriously found dead in 2015 on U.S. soil.
Read moreA federal judge hastened completion of a documentary decades in the making about the FBI’s role in the Vietnam anti-war movement Thursday by ordering the agency to churn out nearly 3,000 pages of documents a month.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union is demanding that four federal agencies release information about an executive order President Donald Trump reportedly planned to sign carving out religious-freedom exemptions the group says target the gay community.
Read moreInvestigators once tasked with examining the assassination of President John F. Kennedy claim in court that the CIA won’t respond to requests for records it might have on covert surveillance of the investigators.
Read moreA federal judge ordered the State, Justice and Defense Departments to speed up their responses to a government watchdog’s requests for records on the legal justification for the Trump administration’s missile strike on Syria in April.
Read moreAn advocacy group for the homeless claims in court that New York education officials are refusing divulge what steps they take to work with homeless children.
Read moreProbing a decline in Drug Enforcement Agency enforcement actions for illegal painkiller prescriptions, the Washington Post brought a federal complaint to pry the records loose.
Read moreThe ACLU sued Albuquerque for information on how its police use Stingray cellphone spying technology, and whether they use it for immigration enforcement, but Albuquerque claims all such records are confidential — including whether they use Stingrays at all.
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A Chicago-based police accountability group claims in court that the city’s police department has once again refused to hand over documents showing how it spent money from a secret fund of seized cash.
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A law student seeking information about police use of sounds cannons has struck a settlement that will force New York City to comply with electronically filed open-records requests.
Read moreOn the same day a modified version of President Trump’s second visa ban took effect, a FOIA lawsuit is seeking to determine the veracity of media reports that U.S. residents detained under the first ban were coerced into surrendering their residency statuses.
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