We have added 77 documents from 11 FOIA cases filed between August 23, 2015 and August 29, 2015. Note that there can be delays between the date a case is filed and when it shows up on PACER. If there are filings from this period that have yet to be posted on PACER, this FOIA Project list may not be complete.
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- REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS et al v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION et al (filed Aug 27, 2015)
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the Associated Press submitted separate FOIA requests to the FBI for records concerning the agency’s practice of impersonating journalists to deliver surveillance software to targets of criminal investigations. The FBI told the Associated Press that requests like theirs normally took 649 days read more…
We have added 15 decisions of a procedural or substantive nature filed between August 23, 2015 and August 29, 2015. These are associated with 14 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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- AK 3:2014cv00199 — Pebble Limited Partnership v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
- August 24, 2015: ORDER granting in part [34] Motion for Summary Judgment. Counsel and court shall proceed with the FOIA Exemption 5 issues as set out in order. Signed by Judge H. Russel Holland on 8/24/15. (CLW, COURT STAFF)
We have added 78 documents from 12 FOIA cases filed between August 16, 2015 and August 22, 2015. Note that there can be delays between the date a case is filed and when it shows up on PACER. If there are filings from this period that have yet to be posted on PACER, this FOIA Project list may not be complete.
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- URBAN AIR INITIATIVE, INC. et al v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (filed Aug 17, 2015)
The Urban Air Initiative and the Energy Future Coalition submitted a FOIA request to the EPA for records concerning the EPAct Gasoline Fuel Effects Study. The EPA told the organizations that there were 83,000 potentially responsive records and that fees were estimated at $24,000. The agency encouraged the organizations to narrow their request read more…
We have added 13 decisions of a procedural or substantive nature filed between August 16, 2015 and August 22, 2015. These are associated with 13 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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- CAN 3:2012cv04008 — American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California et al v. Department of Justice
- August 21, 2015: ORDER by Magistrate Judge Maria-Elena James granting [83] Stipulation of Partial Dismissal with Prejudice. (rmm2S, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 8/21/2015)
Figure 1. Changes in FOIA Requests Received, Closed and Pending During FY 2015So far during FY 2015, federal agencies are falling further behind in their efforts to keep up with requests for information from the public, an initial examination of new data compiled by the FOIA Project suggests. Pending FOIA requests have risen in eight out of nine agencies examined. Overall pending cases are up 30 percent since the end of FY 2014, while average monthly closures during FY 2015 have fallen 8 percent from their average during FY 2014. read more…
We have added 68 documents from 11 FOIA cases filed between August 9, 2015 and August 15, 2015. Note that there can be delays between the date a case is filed and when it shows up on PACER. If there are filings from this period that have yet to be posted on PACER, this FOIA Project list may not be complete.
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- JAMES MADISON PROJECT v. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE et al (filed Aug 12, 2015)
The James Madison Project submitted a FOIA request to the Civil Division at the Department of Justice for records pertaining to the book “No Easy Day,” a firsthand account of the death of Osama bin Laden, including analyses of taking legal action against the book’s author, Mark Owen. The Civil Division indicated that a number of the records were exempt under Exemption 5 (privilege) and Exemption 7 (law enforcement records) read more…
We have added 3 decisions of a procedural or substantive nature filed between August 9, 2015 and August 15, 2015. These are associated with 3 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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- CAN 3:2014cv03010 — Electronic Frontier Foundation v. National Security Agency et al
- August 12, 2015: STIPULATION AND ORDER re [27] STIPULATION WITH PROPOSED ORDER Stipulated Request for Continuance of Summary Judgment Briefing to Permit Reprocessing of Document and Proposed Order. Signed by Judge Richard Seeborg on 8/11/15. (cl, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 8/12/2015)
We have added 12 decisions of a procedural or substantive nature filed between August 2, 2015 and August 8, 2015. These are associated with 11 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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- CAE 2:2011cv02799 — (PS) Jones v. Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
- August 3, 2015: ORDER signed by Magistrate Judge Craig M. Kellison on 8/3/2015 DENYING [103] Motion for Correction of Record as moot. (Michel, G.)
We have added 55 documents from 11 FOIA cases filed between August 2, 2015 and August 8, 2015. Note that there can be delays between the date a case is filed and when it shows up on PACER. If there are filings from this period that have yet to be posted on PACER, this FOIA Project list may not be complete.
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- BRICK v. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (filed Aug 3, 2015)
Christopher Brick, editor/director of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project, submitted a FOIA request to the FBI for 52 pages of records and attachments from Eleanor Roosevelt’s FBI file that had not been released as the result of a 1982 disclosure. The FBI disclosed 338 pages with redactions made under Exemption 6 (invasion of privacy), Exemption 7(C) (invasion of privacy concerning law enforcement records), Exemption 7 (D) (confidential sources), and Exemption 7(E) (investigative methods and techniques) read more…
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