FOIA
Red Wolves
The Southern Environmental Law Center sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in federal court for information on “the conservation and management of North Carolina’s critically endangered red wolf,” which may have been reduced to only 14 animals.
Read moreRudy Giuliani
The Protect Democracy Project sued the State Department in federal court for information communications between it and Rudolph Giuliani regarding his interactions with Ukrainian officials.
Read moreHunter Biden
The New York Times sued the State Department, Department of Justice and FBI in federal court for records on their correspondence regarding Hunter Biden’s activities in Ukraine.
Read moreImmigrant Deaths
Reporter Jason Leopold, a FOIA frequent flier, sued the Department of Homeland Security, ICE and Customs and Border Protection in federal court, for information on refuge-seekers who died in U.S. immigration prisons and holding tanks.
Read moreJudges Turn Up Heat on Feds Over Stalled Records Requests
Tired and frustrated, federal judges are strategically ordering government agencies to pick up the pace in responding to Freedom of Information Act requests to pressure Congress into allocating more funding to offices tasked with releasing records to the public.
Read moreImmigration Policy
Investigative reporter Robert Moore sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement in federal court, seeking “critical records related to border enforcement, fundamental shifts in the treatment of asylum-seekers, and operation of immigration detention facilities.”
Read moreRudy Giuliani
American Oversight sued the State Department in federal court for records on Rudy Giuliani’s and attorneys Victoria Toensing’s and Joseph diGenova’s communications with State Department officials on “any … effort to encourage the Ukrainian government to investigate any matter related to former Vice President Joseph Biden or his son Hunter Biden.”
Read moreSluggish Record Output From Feds Stirs Court’s Ire
A federal judge pushed government lawyers Tuesday to explain why investigative bureau staffing has not grown commensurate with the tidal wave of Freedom of Information Act requests that courts are now enforcing.
Read moreBorder Wall and Wildlife
A federal court in Washington D.C. ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers did not withhold any non-exempt records from the Center for Biological Diversity, which requested documents that were given to President Donald Trump’s transition team and relate to his campaign promise to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Read moreMedicare
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation sued the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in federal court for information on Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment Data Validation documentation, used to gauge the accuracy of Medicare Advantage billing.
Read moreImmigration
The International Refugee Assistance Project sued U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the State Department in federal court for information on their sweeping changes to refugee admissions, for which “defendants have failed to produce a single page of the requested records.”
Read moreWeather Engineering
Stop Geoengineering Minnesota sued the Air Force in federal court for information on its “weather modification, weather intervention, geoengineering, climate engineering, and solar radiation management … and government efforts to restrict public knowledge about weather modification.”
Read moreReporting
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press sued the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI in federal court for information on the raid on the California home of reporter Bryan Carmody.
Read moreSteven Mnuchin
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sued the Department of Treasury in federal court for information on Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin‘s investment in the Vanguard Treasury Money Market Fund.
Read morePublic Health
The Center For Biological Diversity sued the U.S. EPA and FDA for records on to the use of medically important antibiotics as pesticides, which can promote growth of drug-resistant bacteria and diseases.
Read moreNinth Circuit: Courts Can Force Feds to Put Records Online
In a decision that will expand the power of courts to make government agencies post information online, the Ninth Circuit this week reversed the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the removal of animal welfare compliance data from a U.S. Department of Agriculture website.
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Nonprofit Sues for Info on Warrantless GPS Tracking of Vehicles
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing the Department of Homeland Security for failing to respond to two Freedom of Information Act requests seeking documents about the agency’s warrantless installation of GPS tracking systems on vehicles at ports of entry.
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