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July 2022 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on August 14, 2022

June 2022 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on July 14, 2022

May 2022 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on June 14, 2022

April 2022 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on May 14, 2022

March 2022 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on April 14, 2022

February 2022 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on March 14, 2022

January 2022 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on February 14, 2022

December 2021 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on January 14, 2022

November 2021 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on December 14, 2021

October 2021 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on November 14, 2021

September 2021 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on October 15, 2021

August 2021 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on September 15, 2021

July 2021 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on September 3, 2021

FOIA Project’s Brief Bank Adds Detailed Court Documents for 27 FOIA Lawsuits on August 20, 2021

June 2021 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on July 15, 2021

May 2021 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on June 15, 2021

April 2021 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on May 15, 2021

March 2021 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on April 15, 2021

February 2021 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on March 15, 2021

January 2021 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on February 15, 2021

Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied: Judges Fail To Rule in a Timely Manner on FOIA Cases on February 3, 2021

December 2020 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on January 15, 2021

When FOIA Goes to Court: 20 Years of Freedom of Information Act Litigation by News Organizations and Reporters on January 13, 2021

November 2020 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on December 15, 2020

October 2020 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on November 17, 2020

September 2020 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on November 3, 2020

July 2020 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on September 8, 2020

FOIA Project Announces New Brief Bank Initiative and Releases Detailed Court Documents for 15 FOIA Cases on September 2, 2020

June 2020 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on July 16, 2020

May 2020 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on June 17, 2020

April 2020 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on May 21, 2020

March 2020 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on April 17, 2020

Department of Justice Finds No Data for Its Claims of FOIA Requesters Rushing into Court on April 16, 2020

February 2020 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on March 24, 2020

Department of Justice Official Uses Sunshine Week Event to Spread Misinformation about FOIA Processing on March 17, 2020

January 2020 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on February 19, 2020

FOIA Lawsuits Are Taking Longer To Resolve on January 23, 2020

December 2019 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on January 21, 2020

FOIA Suits Rise Because Agencies Don’t Respond Even As Requesters Wait Longer To File Suit on December 15, 2019

November 2019 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on December 14, 2019

October 2019 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on November 19, 2019

September 2019 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on October 17, 2019

June 2019 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on August 1, 2019

Scrutinizing Attorney Fee Awards in FOIA Litigation on December 19, 2018

Annual Report: FOIA Lawsuits Reach Record Highs in FY 2018 on November 12, 2018

FOIA Suits Filed by Nonprofit/Advocacy Groups Have Doubled Under Trump on October 18, 2018

June 2018 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on August 13, 2018

Media Lawsuits Seeking Government Records Jump Under Trump on August 2, 2018

April 2018 FOIA Litigation with Five-Year Monthly Trends on June 14, 2018

FOIA Lawsuits Surge in Trump Administration’s First Year on January 16, 2018

Speeding up the Processing of FOIA Requests at ICE: Send Blank CDs on September 22, 2017

Crisis Management Now Routine at ICE FOIA Office on September 5, 2017

Dramatic Rise in FOIA Lawsuits Filed by Nonprofit Advocacy Groups on July 26, 2017

FOIA Wait Times Up 31 Percent at Department of the Navy on June 19, 2017

Media-Filed Suits Seek Records from the Trump Administration on May 31, 2017

FOIA Lawsuits Reach Highest Level Recorded in 25 Years on May 23, 2017

Wait Times at EPA on Pending FOIA Requests Has Climbed on May 22, 2017

FOIA Backlog Skyrockets at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on May 8, 2017

News Reporters Drive Growth in Media FOIA Litigation on January 9, 2017

FOIA Lawsuits Mirror News Headlines in FY 2016 on December 9, 2016

The News Media List: Our Latest Initiative on December 1, 2016

Good News and Bad News on FOIA Responsiveness on January 26, 2016

FOIA Lawsuits Reach Record High on January 6, 2016

Survey Results – Improved But Far From Perfect on November 2, 2015

TRAC Challenges CIA Refusal to Process FOIA Requests on October 20, 2015

Backlog Down but Wait Times Up for DEA FOIA Requests on September 14, 2015

New Tool Reveals Agencies Struggling to Keep Up on August 24, 2015

CIA: Going for the Catch 22 Prize on June 29, 2015

Key Agencies Flub Response to Simple Request on April 24, 2015

FOIA Suits Jump In 2014 on December 22, 2014

Bitter Dispute at Heart of FOIA Suits Against Army on November 20, 2014

PACER documents to be restored, court says on September 19, 2014

PACER Upgrade Leaves Electronic Warehouse of Court Records Incomplete on September 5, 2014

Case Spotlight: Seeking Metadata from the NSA on August 20, 2014

Case Spotlight: Journalist detained in Iran wants to know what U.S. did to free him on August 15, 2014

What’s In a Name? on October 30, 2013

Case Hopes to Expand What is Available under FOIA on October 21, 2013

Poor ICE FOIA Management Hinders Public Access to Immigration Records on July 18, 2013

ICE’s FOIA Office Backlog Shows Ballooning Wait Times on May 30, 2013

ICE’s FOIA Requests Piling Up on April 29, 2013

Another Error in DOJ Compliance and Litigation Report on April 25, 2013

Did the DOJ Accurately Report on Your FOIA Lawsuit? on April 23, 2013

Media Making Fewer Challenges to Government Secrecy in Federal Court on March 14, 2013

FOIA Lawsuits Increase During Obama Administration on December 20, 2012

New data confirm DOJ’s subpar FOIA performance on May 24, 2012

By the Numbers on May 23, 2012

TRAC Co-director Receives FOIA Award on March 19, 2012

Defensive Standards Hinder FOIA Openness on March 1, 2012

FOIA Court Challenges Up 27% in FY 2011 on October 4, 2011

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