Case Detail
Case Title | CALLIMACHI v. NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
District | District of Columbia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
City | Washington, DC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Case Number | 1:2020cv02199 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date Filed | 2020-08-11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date Closed | Open | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Judge | Judge James E. Boasberg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Plaintiff | RUKMINI CALLIMACHI | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Case Description | Journalist Rukmini Callimachi submitted three FOIA requests to the National Archives and Records Administration. Her first FOIA request was for records concerning the 1989 Romanian revolution. Her second FOIA request was for records concerning the 1989 Malta summit between President George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev. NARA told Callimachi that it had located thousands of potentially responsive records, many of which were classified. NARA suggested that she proceed with a mandatory declassification review. She declined to pursue that alternative. NARA then told her that since the responsive records were in the George Bush presidential library, they could not be processed remotely. Callimachi's third FOIA was for records concerning the 1989 execution of Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu. NARA told her that there were 60 publicly available responsive pages and an additional 18 pages that needed to be processed. After hearing nothing further from the NARA, Callimachi filed suit. Complaint issues: Adequacy - Search, Failure to respond within statutory time limit, Litigation - Attorney's fees | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Defendant | NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Documents | Docket Complaint Complaint attachment 1 Complaint attachment 2 Complaint attachment 3 Complaint attachment 4 Complaint attachment 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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