111 results for 'nos:"Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - Other Suits"'.
J. Contreras denies, in part, the Department of Justice's motion for summary judgment pertaining to withheld documents in a trauma center's Freedom of Information Act case concerning the department's office of immigration litigation. Certain documents are not exempt from disclosure, as they are not protected by either attorney-client privilege or deliberative process privilege.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Contreras, Filed On: October 17, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv3517, NOS: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - Other Suits, Categories: Immigration, Public Record
J. Holcomb grants the SEC's partial motion for summary judgment and dismisses an individual's motion for sanctions regarding several Freedom of Information Act requests filed by the individual and the SEC's decision to redact or withhold certain documents. The individual has not included any documents or emails that corroborate his accusations. The individual's "claims of a vast and nefarious conspiracy certainly qualify as extraordinary; regrettably, cursory references to Wikipedia, headlines, and his own book certainly do not."
Court: USDC Central District of California, Judge: Holcomb, Filed On: October 11, 2023, Case #: 5:21cv1637, NOS: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - Other Suits, Categories: Public Record
J. Kennelly splits competing summary judgment motions between a Northwestern University professor pursuing FOIA requests, and several U.S. government agencies seeking to block those FOIA requests. The professor is conducting research into the government’s practice of deporting its own citizens and in pursuit of that research filed FOIA requests with the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Department of Justice, and the Executive Office for Immigration Review. The agencies didn’t respond to several of these requests, so he filed suit. The court partially resolves the dispute by dismissing the DOJ and DHS as defendants, ordering the remaining agencies to provide some the information the professor requested, while allowing them to withhold other information. The court will also allow the professor to replead her case for several of the FOIA requests the court denied in this ruling.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kennelly, Filed On: October 2, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv5072, NOS: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - Other Suits, Categories: Government, Immigration, Public Record
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J. Vyskocil grants a government office’s motion for summary judgment in this matter concerning materials requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). A law firm that brings civil actions on behalf of American victims of terrorism requested information on three entities from the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the the United States Department of Treasury (OFAC). The materials provided to that law were were heavily redacted, and the some documents were withheld altogether with OFAC citing multiple FOIA exemptions and national security as the reason. The law firm argues OFAC inadvertently disclosed that it withheld two publicly available press releases, and the law firm contends OFAC does not understand and potentially misapplied FOIA exemptions. The instant court finds the law firm’s arguments lack merit, and finds that OFAC’s redactions and withholdings are supported by confidential affidavits.
Court: USDC Southern District of New York, Judge: Vyskocil, Filed On: September 12, 2023, Case #: 1:19cv405, NOS: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - Other Suits, Categories: Government, Public Record
J. McFadden grants, in part, summary judgment to a nonprofit on its Freedom of Information Act case related to records regarding people who had died while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The agency failed to conduct an adequate search, and it also failed to support two exemptions used to withhold certain documents.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: McFadden, Filed On: September 5, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv3030, NOS: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - Other Suits, Categories: Immigration, Public Record
J. Kelley allows a government agency’s motion for summary judgment against an individual suing it for failure to provide him with all immigration-related documents he requested. Only one document was missing and, while the individual noted that the agency failed to search an internal shared drive, it chose not to do so because that shared drive contained drafts rather than final decisions.
Court: USDC Massachusetts, Judge: Kelley, Filed On: August 10, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv11817, NOS: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - Other Suits, Categories: Immigration, Public Record, Discovery