Court Decisions

Re: Request for documents showing all money paid by BOP for lawsuits and claims during a specified time period Disposition: Granting defendant's motions for summary judgment and denying plaintiff's motion for summary judgment

• Exemption 6: The court holds that BOP properly applied Exemption 6 to withhold names and other personal identifying information that would reveal identities of persons...

Re: Request for records related to raid of meatpacking plant and subsequent prosecution of plaintiff's client, the manager of the plant Disposition: Granting defendant's motion for summary judgment because plaintiff failed to exhaust his administrative remedies

• Exhaustion: The court holds that plaintiff failed to exhaust his administrative remedies before filing suit.  "Plaintiff filed suit...

Re: Request for records relating to plaintiff's prior civil rights suit against Deputy United States Marshals and city police detective Disposition: Granting defendant's motion to dismiss

• Litigation Considerations:  The court finds that, "[plaintiff] cannot possibly prevail here because he has sued individual federal officials under FOIA and FOIA authorizes relief only against covered federal...

Re: Request for records concerning protest movement and encampment known as "Occupy Wall Street" Disposition: Granting defendant's motion to dismiss or for summary judgment

• Search:  The court holds that defendant's "[d]eclaration makes clear that [defendant] conducted good faith, reasonable searches of the systems of records likely to possess records responsive to Plaintiffs' requests."  The...

Re: Request for lists of severe repetitive-loss properties or structures, including owners, addresses and cumulative totals of claims paid for each property or structure Disposition: Granting defendant's motion for summary judgment

• Exemption 6:  The court finds that "[defendant] validly withheld disclosure of the information at issue under FOIA Exemption 6."  The court states that "[t]he...

Re: Request for records pertaining to federally funded study of potential health effects of exposure to formaldehyde Disposition: Granting defendants' motion for summary judgment upholding the adequacy of the search

• Litigation Considerations:  Because the plaintiff "never previously objected to these withholdings and even agreed at the status hearing that the sole remaining issue was the...

Re: Request for records concerning the export of devices, software, or technology primarily used to intercept or block communications Disposition: Granting in part and denying in part defendant's motion for summary judgment; granting in part and denying in part plaintiff's motion for summary judgment; ordering defendant to reprocess request and if material is withheld, to provide a Vaughn Index

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Re: Request for performance review reports for National Council of LaRaza and its affiliate, and records pertaining to the delay in processing request Disposition: Granting defendant's motion for summary judgment

• Adequacy of the Search:  The court "finds that the searches described by HUD could be 'reasonably expected to produce the information requested and were therefore adequate.'" ...

Re: Request for records regarding creation and management of Communications Management Unit (CMU) within United States Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois, management of the CMU, and treatment of Muslim prisoners within CMU Disposition: Granting in part defendant's motion to dismiss

• Proper Party Defendant:  The court accepts plaintiff's allegations as true and orders the case to proceed against...

Re: Request for specific employee e-mails, at issue is whether FAA's search was reasonable when it did not search the e-mail archives of an employee and its disaster recovery tape  Disposition: Granting defendant's motion for summary judgment

• Adequacy of the Search:  The court finds that "the search conducted by the FAA was responsive to Plaintiff's request, and was adequate and reasonable in...