Massachusetts AG Sued Over Clamp on 3D Gun Records
A 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.
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Feds Sued Over Citizenship Processing Backlog
A 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 moreDC Circuit Weighs Bid for Coveted Trump Tax Returns
A 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 moreKeystone Pipeline
The 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 moreImmigrant Detention & Toxic Waste
Five 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 moreFracking
Columbia 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 moreUS Can Keep Abu Ghraib Photos in the Dark
The 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 moreDB Cooper Sleuths Share Code With Public
Confident 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 moreDirty Coal
The 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 moreJudge Hands ACLU Partial Victory in Request for Yemen Raid Docs
The 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 moreSeparating Refugee Families
Immigrant 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 moreSweetheart Ancestry.com Deal Alleged in NY
Contrasting 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.
Read moreScott Pruitt
The Sierra Club sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for denying its requests for schedules and records of communications between Administrator Scott Pruitt and leaders of polluting industries he regulates, in a federal FOIA complaint.
Read moreCourt Asked to Compel Pruitt Testimony on EPA Records Practices
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) – In his first year at the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt has exhibited
Read moreJudge Brings EPA to Fore on Climate Change Position
The Environmental Protection Agency faced a federal judge’s rebuke Friday for refusing to disclose records on which its chief relied when he said that human activity doesn’t drive climate change.
Read moreSnooping on Immigrants
The ACLU brought a federal complaint to obtain records on government contracts with private companies for license plate reader databases for immigration enforcement.
Read moreSettlement Shines Sunlight on Millions Seized by NYPD
Agreeing to share data on millions of dollars it has seized through civil forfeitures, the New York City Police Department reached a settlement Monday that brings transparency to a program shrouded in secrecy.
Read morePolitics
Rhode Island House Minority Leader Patricia Morgan, a Republican, sued Democratic state Attorney General Peter Kilmartin for telling her it will cost $3,700 to respond to a request for information on how the state is using money from a settlement with Google to increase school security, in Kent County Court.
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