A leaked memo from what conservationists say is the Justice Department advises the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to withhold or delay releasing records sought in Freedom of Information Act requests regarding implementation of the Endangered Species Act.
Read moreThe Humane Society brought a federal complaint under the Freedom of Information Act to access documents on how the Interior Department enforces its trophy-hunting quotas for large and endangered or threatened game, including African elephants and lions.
Read moreThe New York Times brought a federal complaint Thursday to uncover records that could show whether Russia interfered in the effort to repeal net neutrality.
Read moreAfter the New York City Council took measures to ensure there is no racial bias in subway arrests for fare evasion, a new lawsuit claims the NYPD is refusing to disclose telltale numbers.
Read moreThe Justice Department on Wednesday was slapped with a federal lawsuit demanding information on whether it followed its own rules and procedures when it secretly collected a New York Times journalist’s phone and email records.
Read moreA pair of gun-rights activists claim in court that the attorney general of Massachusetts cannot use her investigation into 3D-printed guns to withhold public records.
Read moreA coalition of immigrant rights and voter advocates filed a federal lawsuit Monday over the Trump administration’s “methodical” delays in processing naturalization applications, which they claim is a politically motivated effort to suppress potential voters.
Read moreA nonprofit fighting to uncover the president’s tax returns pushed the D.C. Circuit on Thursday about statements from Donald Trump Jr. about his father’s Russian assets.
Read moreThe ACLU brought a federal complaint Tuesday against the Departments of Homeland Security and Defense for documents of law-enforcement plans to surveil and police Keystone XL protests.
Read moreFive advocacy groups brought a federal complaint Thursday demanding immediate records access related to the toxic waste sites known to exist at the Fort Bliss Army Base, soon to be the home of a detention camp for thousands of immigrant families under the Trump administration.
Read moreColumbia Riverkeeper brought a federal FOIA complaint against the U.S. Department of Energy for refusing to deliver information on its financial help to a Chinese company that wants to build a fracked-gas-to-methanol refinery on the Columbia River.
Read moreThe Second Circuit backed the U.S. government on Tuesday for its refusal to share what could be hundreds of photographs depicting torture at Abu Ghraib prison.
Read moreConfident he has definitively unmasked the true identity of skyjacker turned folk hero, a private sleuth wants to explain how his team members decrypted hidden messages they believe D.B. Cooper embedded in letters sent to several newspapers in the 1970s.
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Energy refuses to release documents on its efforts to bail out and favor the coal industry over other more economically and environmentally successful industries, the Sierra Club claims in a federal complaint.
Read moreThe White House may have slipped up and acknowledged the existence of records relating to a 2017 controversial raid in Yemen that the CIA wants to withhold from the ACLU, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreImmigrant advocates sued several federal agencies in the Trump administration Wednesday, demanding records about the separation of families in order to let the public know the whys and hows of the now-suspended practice.
Read moreContrasting the dust on its records demands against the access given to Ancestry.com, an open-government group has asked a judge to put sunlight on the website’s correspondence with public officials in New York.
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