We have added 54 documents from 9 FOIA cases filed between February 28, 2016 and March 5, 2016. 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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- HETZNECKER v. NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY et al (filed Feb 29, 2016)
Paul Hetznecker, a Philadelphia attorney representing the Occupy Philadelphia group, submitted FOIA requests to the National Security Agency, the CIA, and the FBI for records concerning surveillance of the Occupy Philadelphia group. The NSA failed to respond, the CIA told Hetznecker that it had no records because it did not have jurisdiction to conduct surveillance of domestic groups, and the FBI provide five heavily redacted records with redactions made under Exemption 7 (law enforcement records) read more…
We have added 7 decisions of a procedural or substantive nature filed between February 21, 2016 and February 27, 2016. These are associated with 7 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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- CAC 2:2015cv02720 — Jonathan Carrano v. Internal Revenue Service et al
- February 22, 2016: ORDER OF DISMISSAL by Judge Manuel L. Real. THE COURT having been advised by the counsel for the parties that the above-entitled action has been settled [15] ; IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that this action is hereby dismissed without costs and without prejudice to the right, upon good cause shown within 120 days, to reopen the action if the settlement is not consummated. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that all dates set in this action are hereby vacated. The Court reserves its jurisdiction for the purpose of enforcing the settlement. (Made JS-6. Case Terminated.) (iv)
We have added 51 documents from 7 FOIA cases filed between February 21, 2016 and February 27, 2016. 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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- KHATCHADOURIAN v. DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY et al (filed Feb 22, 2016)
Raffi Khatchadorian, a staff writer for the New Yorker, submitted a FOIA request to the Defense Intelligence Agency for records concerning the Information Review Task Force, a multi-agency unit created within DIA to assess the impact on the United States of the documents disclosed on the Wikileaks website read more…
We have made the following update to the Agency FOIA Backlogs and Processing Times data tool: Data for Treasury – IRS updated through September 2015.
We have added 5 decisions of a procedural or substantive nature filed between February 14, 2016 and February 20, 2016. These are associated with 5 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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- DC 1:2012cv00843 — BLOOMGARDEN v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
- February 19, 2016: REDACTED MEMORANDUM AND OPINION. Signed by Judge Ellen S. Huvelle on February 05, 2016. (jf)
We have added 14 documents from 3 FOIA cases filed between February 14, 2016 and February 20, 2016. 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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- Casper et al v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security et al (filed Feb 16, 2016)
Benjamin Casper, a law professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, Katherine Evans, a teaching fellow at the University of Minnesota Law School, and Robert Koulish, a political science professor at the University of Maryland, submitted FOIA requests to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for records concerning agency training of personnel to use its risk classification assessment tool read more…
We have added 12 decisions of a procedural or substantive nature filed between January 31, 2016 and February 6, 2016. These are associated with 12 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 1:2015cv01412 — San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority v. Office of the Solicitor, of the U.S. Department of the Interior, et al.
- February 3, 2016: MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER GRANTING IN PART FEDERAL DEFENDANTS MOTION TO DISMISS FOR FAILURE TO STATE A CLAIM signed by District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill on February 3, 2016. (Munoz, I)
We have added 70 documents from 10 FOIA cases filed between February 7, 2016 and February 13, 2016. 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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- CAUSE OF ACTION INSTITUTE v. NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION et al (filed Feb 12, 2016)
Cause of Action submitted a FOIA request to the Clinton Presidential Library for records of communications between the library director and Hillary Clinton or any of her representatives pertaining to her records when she was Secretary of State. Cause of Action requested expedited processing and a fee waiver read more…
We have added 12 decisions of a procedural or substantive nature filed between January 31, 2016 and February 6, 2016. These are associated with 12 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 1:2015cv01412 — San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority v. Office of the Solicitor, of the U.S. Department of the Interior, et al.
- February 3, 2016: MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER GRANTING IN PART FEDERAL DEFENDANTS MOTION TO DISMISS FOR FAILURE TO STATE A CLAIM signed by District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill on February 3, 2016. (Munoz, I)
We have added 53 documents from 4 FOIA cases filed between January 31, 2016 and February 6, 2016. 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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- Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area et al v. Executive Office for Immigration Review et al (filed Feb 2, 2016)
The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area and a coalition of public interest groups submitted two FOIA requests to the Executive Office for Immigration Review at the Department of Justice for records concerning policies, procedures, standards, and criteria developed and applied to expedited dockets announced for immigration courts across the country on July 9, 2014 read more…
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