freedom-of-information

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6444 Samuel T. Whatley, II, et al. v. City of North Charleston, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights election-interference federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-information governmental-immunity search-and-seizure Whether intergovernmental agencies, organizations, and individual governmental employees are immune from federal law prosecutions and sanctions when i…
24-39 Christopher Glenn White v. Donald T. Sloan, Sheriff, Lynchburg, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied booking-photo booking-photos civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-prospects freedom-of-information government-decision-making internet-publication law-enforcement public-disclosure due-process
23A1032 William Edward Powell v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2024-05-20 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-disclosure federal-records freedom-of-information privacy-rights tax-records Whether a federal agency can withhold tax records from a taxpayer seeking information about themselves and deceased family members under existing disc…
23-7112 Christopher J. Barnett v. Doug Drummond, District Judge, District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-04-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-provision due-process elected-official freedom-of-information judicial-records legal-standing oklahoma-supreme-court public-record public-records Did the Tulsa County District Court err in sealing a public police report?
23-7020 Donovan A. Reid v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Fourth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process freedom-of-information government-transparency jurisdiction legal-provisions public-records writ-petition Whether federal agencies must allow their policies, manuals, and other internal guidance to be publicly available when employees of the federal agency…
23-6625 Wayne Frazer v. Bakery & Drivers Local 550, et al. Second Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process freedom-of-information government-transparency jurisdiction legal-review procedural-rules public-records standing supreme-court writ Whether the summary plea descriptor that police mailed to the petitioner was false
23-6516 Samuel T. Whatley, et al. v. City of North Charleston, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-interference federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-information governmental-immunity search-and-seizure transparency treason Are intergovernmental agencies immune to federal law prosecutions?
22-116 Connecticut State Police Union v. James Rovella, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection Second Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining contracts-clause freedom-of-information police-accountability police-misconduct public-accountability public-sector retroactive-legislation Whether Connecticut Public Act 20-1 violates the Contracts Clause
21-305 Angela DeBose v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees Florida 2021-08-31 Denied 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
20-7741 Wen Dong Zhao v. Department of State Second Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights department-of-state due-process embassy-communication federal-investigation freedom-of-information government-misconduct intellectual-property judicial-review letter-disposition standing Denial-of-access-to-letters
19-7406 Bartholomew Antonio Guzman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction first-amendment freedom-of-information government-transparency habeas-corpus public-records standing state-court state-court-interpretation state-court-proceedings Whether the United States District Court erred in dismissing a pro se habeas corpus petition due to the lack of jurisdiction because the habeas per pe…
19-777 Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Department of Commerce, et al. District of Columbia 2019-12-18 Denied administrative-procedure article-iii article-iii-standing census-citizenship-question e-government-act federal-election-commission freedom-of-information informational-injury injury-in-fact mootness munsingwear-vacatur privacy-impact-assessment public-information standing-injury-in-fact statutory-disclosure vacatur Does a plaintiff suffer an Article III injury in fact when the plaintiff fails to obtain information which must be publicly disclosed pursuant to a st…
19-6274 Sergei Kovalev v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employee-immunity first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-information freedom-of-speech government-accountability government-liability municipal-liability public-access qualified-immunity Whether the First Amendment guarantees the right to enter public offices and seek information or petition the government
19-6135 Kelvin Townsend v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process freedom-of-information government-transparency grand-jury indictment judicial-oversight sealed-records standing Is the government required to obtain a court order from the court to unseal a sealed criminal indictment?
18-8255 David E. Ponder v. Avalon Correctional Services, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied IFP circuit-court-split civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-protections due-process foia-exemption freedom-of-information inmate-rights prison prison-transparency private-prisons standing takings Private for-profit prisons-are-allowed-to-deny-FOIA-and-State-Open-Records laws
18-8006 In Re Curtis Evans 2019-02-15 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process freedom-of-information jurisdiction private-company public-records standing statutory-provisions Why does the public have a right to access the records of a private company?
18-7980 Joseph Michael Ladeairous v. Department of Justice District of Columbia 2019-02-14 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process foia-request foreign-intelligence-surveillance foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act freedom-of-information freedom-of-information-act national-security standing summary-judgment surveillance terrorist-designation Whether petitioner had a right to confront respondent under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
18-795 William J. Bush v. Department of Agriculture, Risk Management Agency, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-records chevron-deference circuit-split de-novo-review due-process foia-request freedom-of-information freedom-of-information-act freedom-of-information-act-foia Whether the Eighth Circuit's standard for agency records pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) conflicts with the D.C. Circuit's standard
18-5638 Deborah A. Purnell v. St. Mary's Hospital, et al. California 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process elder-abuse equal-protection freedom-of-information judicial-discrimination life-threatening-conditions medical-negligence reckless-medical-care reporter's-transcript Whether statutory elder abuse inherently includes acts of violence and brutalization, reckless medical care that causes life-threatening conditions su…