| 25A743 |
Nathaniel J. Buckley v. Department of Justice |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Application |
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circuit-split exemption-7 foia law-enforcement records-disclosure statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Freedom of Information Act's Exemption 7 requires a law enforcement purpose for withholding agency records or applies categorically to all… |
| 25-686 |
Gary Sebastian Brown, III v. Federal Bureau of Investigation |
District of Columbia |
2025-12-12 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
confidential-source exemption-7d foia foreseeable-harm law-enforcement transparency |
Whether an agency invoking FOIA Exemption 7(D) must demonstrate foreseeable harm after the 2016 FOIA Improvement Act and whether recognition risk by w… |
| 25A393 |
Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability, Inc. v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-10-06 |
Presumed Complete |
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administrative-secrecy agency-action foia glomar-response public-scrutiny records-search |
Whether an agency can issue a 'Glomar response' to a FOIA request without conducting any search for potentially releasable records |
| 24A552 |
Barbara Kowal v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-12-05 |
Presumed Complete |
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administrative-appeals federal-agencies foia information-request public-records statutory-exemptions |
Whether the Freedom of Information Act permits federal agencies to withhold records based on statutory exemptions when requested by a paralegal seekin… |
| 24-520 |
James G. Connell, III v. Central Intelligence Agency |
District of Columbia |
2024-11-06 |
Denied |
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agency-disclosure circuit-split evidence-standard foia glomar-response judicial-review |
Whether a court may weigh all relevant evidence or only agency-acknowledged evidence when assessing the legality of a Glomar response under the Freedo… |
| 23A1175 |
Dennis M. Buckovetz v. Department of the Navy |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Presumed Complete |
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administrative-law foia government-accountability judicial-review military-records transparency |
Whether the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) permits judicial review of a federal agency's decision to withhold records related to potential miscondu… |
| 23-5323 |
Don Collins v. Rob Jeffreys, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights court-dismissal document-access due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing foia foia-request institutional-bias procedural-fairness |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the case after granting leave to serve defendants, and in failing to address issues related to access to e… |
| 22-7394 |
Mike Webb v. Department of the Army, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-remedies agency-discretion agency-response civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment foia foia-request privacy-act pro-se-litigation standing |
Whether the failure of an agency to respond to a FOIA request violates due process |
| 22-774 |
Adam Delgado v. Department of Justice |
Federal Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
breach-of-contract false-documentation foia government-liability official-misconduct perjury |
Whether the Federal government can breach a contract without justification and subsequently submit allegedly false documentation, evidence, and affida… |
| 22-364 |
Ryan Noah Shapiro v. Department of Justice |
District of Columbia |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-bad-faith civil-procedure discovery discovery-standard federal-civil-procedure foia foia-request motion-for-summary-judgment rule-56(d) rule-56d standing summary-judgment |
Must a plaintiff facing a motion for summary judgment provide evidence that the movant has acted in bad faith before obtaining discovery under Rule 56… |
| 22-5009 |
Larry Welenc v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exemptions foia foia-exemption freedom-of-information-act investigative-procedure judicial-review standing statute-of-limitations |
Can a US District Court Judge determine that an excised document released under FOIA consists only of a blank sheet and page number falls under a FOIA… |
| 21-8242 |
Michael David Webb v. Anthony S. Fauci, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-procedure agency-response civil-rights due-process face-act foia free-exercise freedom-of-information-act injunctive-relief judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing |
Whether a Trial Court may not exercise its powers against a candidate for office to stifle free-speech |
| 21-1577 |
Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-remedies agency-records foia freedom-of-information-act judicial-review personal-privacy public-official redaction statutory-interpretation statutory-time-limit |
When a person requests records from a federal agency under the FOIA, may the agency redact the requester's own name? |
| 21-6170 |
Michael D. Webb v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law chevron-deference executive-order executive-privilege foia foia-request jacobson-v-massachusetts justiciable-issue public-health public-health-emergency separation-of-powers |
Whether the President's interest in confidentiality can be overcome by a FOIA request |
| 21-305 |
Angela DeBose v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees |
Florida |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
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agency-records constitutional-access exemptions fee-waiver foia foia-exemptions freedom-of-information privileges-and-immunities public-information public-records |
Whether agency records are exempt from FOIA disclosure |
| 20-420 |
Jack R. T. Jordan v. Department of Labor |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act constitutional-interpretation federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence foia foia-review judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether lower courts may disregard FOIA-judicial-review-provisions,administrative-procedure-act,federal-rules-of-civil-procedure,federal-rules-of-evid… |
| 20-241 |
Jack Jordan v. Department of Labor |
District of Columbia |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-action attorney-client-privilege circuit-court-review foia freedom-of-information-act judicial-review rule-60 summary-judgment |
Whether district court and circuit court review of agency action under FOIA must comport with the APA |
| 19-517 |
Daniel Barbosa, et al. v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
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administrative-procedure-act agency-transparency civil-procedure discretionary-function discretionary-function-exception express-statement-requirement foia foia-publication-requirements freedom-of-information-act judicial-review mandatory-publication secret-law stafford-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Stafford Act bars review of claims that FEMA uses secret law in violation of FOIA's mandatory requirements |
| 18-9651 |
Carlos Arturo Patino-Restrepo v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-discretion civil-procedure due-process foia freedom-of-information-act government-transparency judicial-review mandatory-regulation summary-judgment |
Does a district court abuse its discretion in granting an agency summary judgment in a FOIA proceeding where the agency has failed to comply with a ma… |
| 18A1209 |
Michael W. Gahagan v. Citizenship & Immigration Services |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Presumed Complete |
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attorney-fees fee-shifting foia litigation-costs statutory-interpretation substantial-prevailing |
Whether a court may award attorney's fees under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) when a plaintiff has technically 'substantially prevailed' but o… |
| 18-8720 |
Rodney Reep v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-records agency-referrals civil-procedure exemption-7(c) exemption-interpretation foia foia-request government-disclosure government-misconduct grand-jury improper-conduct judicial-procedure statute-of-limitations |
Does 28 U.S.C. §2401(a) apply to FOIA? |
| 18-7225 |
Neil Gillespie v. Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc. |
Florida |
2019-01-03 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
7th-amendment administrative-procedure buyer-incompetence civil-rights constitutional-challenge disciplinary-functions due-process federal-regulation foia foreclosure home-equity-conversion-mortgage hud-jurisdiction lawyers-guild mortgage-law nonlawyer-ownership older-americans-act privacy-rights pro-se-litigation securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 standing the-florida-bar trial-by-jury unlicensed-practice-of-medicine void-for-vagueness voting-rights |
Is the federal HECM reverse mortgage program unconstitutional? |
| 18-6109 |
Keerut Singh v. United States Postal Service |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process foia foia-request judicial-procedure privacy-act pro-se-litigant standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit failed to comply with its own precedents under 5 U.S.C. §§ 552 and 552a |
| 18-5250 |
Vincent Michael Marino v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-secrecy civil-rights document-disclosure due-process foia FOIA-access foia-exemptions foia-privacy-act Inadequate-search privacy-act Privacy-Act-amendment public-records Reimbursement-of-FOIA-fees search-fee statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court and appeals court erred in improperly categorizing and misapplying FOIA/Privacy Act exemptions, failing to compel agency co… |