FOIA Activity: 4 New Procedural or Substantive Decisions

We have added 4 decisions of a procedural or substantive nature filed between September 1, 2019 and September 7, 2019. These are associated with 4 FOIA cases pending in federal district court. Note that because there can be delays between the date a decision is made and when it shows up on PACER, this listing includes only decisions that appeared on PACER during this period.

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1. CAE 2:2019cv00415 — KXTV, LLC v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

   • September 3, 2019: ORDER signed by District Judge John A. Mendez on 8/30/19 EXTENDING the deadlines as follows: Intervenor shall provide his list of information(documents or redactions) that he waives any privacy interest in by 9/18/19; Defendant USCIS' advises whether it will produced the Intervenor's additional waived documents or the basis for withholding by 10/16/19; Plaintiff advises whether the August production and any further production based on Intervenor's waiver resolves this action by 10/31/19; Defendant USCIS's Motion for SummaryJudgment RESET to 11/21/19, (page limit 25); Plaintiff's Opposition to Summary Judgment RESET to 12/20/19, (page limit 25); Defendant USCIS's Reply in Support of its Motion for Summary Judgment RESET to 1/3/20, (page limit 15); Plaintiff's Sur-reply (Optional) RESET to 1/10/20, (page limit 5); and Hearing 1/14/20 @ 1:30p.m., (No Change) (Becknal, R)
2. DC 1:2013cv00772 — JUDICIAL WATCH, INC. v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE

   • September 5, 2019: (Redacted) MEMORANDUM OPINION. Signed by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on September 5, 2019. (lcckk1) Modified on 9/5/2019 to add "Redacted" word (kt).
3. MN 0:2018cv02493 — Dorsey & Whitney LLP v. United States Postal Service

   • September 3, 2019: ORDER. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED: The May 9, 2019 R&R [47] is ADOPTED. (See order for details) (Written Opinion). Signed by Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright on 9/3/2019. (RJE)
4. WAW 2:2018cv01317 — Wood v. United States Department of the Army

   • September 6, 2019: JOINT STATUS REPORT AND ORDER re parties' [25] Status Report. The parties shall file their next status report by October 7, 2019. Signed by Judge Barbara J. Rothstein. (TH)