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Introduction

This page is a place to identify substantive and administrative issues regarding the FOIA Wiki, as well as serving a launching point for those looking to make contributions.

Pages that may need contributions

• Special:ShortPages

Cases To Add

Exemptions

• EPIC & Leopold v. DOJ, No. 20-5364 (D.C. Cir 2021), https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/8892DBE6CD1083448525879D00535C80/$file/20-5364-1924504.pdf
• Citizens for Resp. & Ethics in Washington v. United States Postal Serv., No. CV 20-2927 (JDB), 2021 WL 3662843 (D.D.C. Aug. 17, 2021) (deliberative process privilege)
• Niskanen Ctr. v. FERC, No. 20-5028, 2021 WL 5979261 (D.C. Cir. Dec. 17, 2021) (Ex 6)
• ACLU v. FBI, No. No. 16-15178 (9th Cir. 2018)✓
• Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington v. U.S. Dep't of Justice", 854 F.3d 675, 683 (D.C. Cir. 2017)✓

Affirmative disclosure obligations

• New York Legal Assistance Group v. Board of Immigration Appeals (CA2 Feb 5 2021) https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/immigratiopinions.pdf

Pattern/Practice Litigation

• Am. Ctr. for Law & Justice v. United States Dep't of State, No. 16 CV 2516 (JEB), 2017 WL 2483758 (D.D.C. June 8, 2017);
• Judicial Watch v. DHS, No. 16-5339 (DC Cir 2018), https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/ED8CBD585C26BDE3852582CD0052AD45/$file/16-5339-1740921.pdf
• Crew v. HUD, No. 18-cv-00114 (CJN) (DDC Nov 25, 2019)

Foreseeable Harm standard

• Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Commerce, No. 17-1283 (D.D.C. Mar. 22, 2019)
• Farmworker Justice v. United States Dep't of Agric., No. 19-cv-1946 (DLF), 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 40437, at **12-13 (D.D.C. Mar. 4, 2021).

Glomar

• Property of the People v. DOJ, No. 17-cv-1728 (D.D.C. Sept 24, 2019) https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2017cv1728-35
• Leopold v. CIA, No. 19-978 (D.D.C. Nov. 7, 2019), https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2019cv0978-17
• ACLU v. DOJ, No. . 19-cv-00290-EMC (N.D.C.A. Nov. 18, 2019), https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/39._order_deniying_defs_motion_for_partial_summary_judgment_11.18.19.pdf
• David Austin Lindsey v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Civil Action No. 16-cv-2032 (CKK)✓
• ACLU v. DoD et al, 17-cv-3391 (S.D.N.Y. 2018), https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4561939/6-27-18-ACLU-v-DoD-Opinion.pdf ✓
• NYT v. CIA, 17-cv-06354 (S.D.N.Y. 2018), https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4569059-Memorandum-amp-Opinion.html ✓

Discovery

• In Re: Hillary Rodham Clinton and Cheryl Mills, No. 20-5056, U.S. (Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Aug. 14)

Adequacy of Search

• Colgan v. DOJ, No. 14-cv-740 (DDC) https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2014cv0740-66
• ALBALADEJO v. ICE, No. 1:19-cv-03806-RC (DDC Feb. 2, 2021)

Responsiveness/Non-Responsiveness

• Shapiro v. DOJ, No. 18-5123 (CADC Dec. 20, 2019), https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/9DA4FE5812FE7B23852584D600578914/$file/18-5123-1821026.pdf
• Cause of Action Inst. v. United States Dep't of Just., 999 F.3d 696, 702 (D.C. Cir. 2021)

FOIA and FACA

• EPIC v. National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, No. 1:19-cv-02906 (DDC), https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2019cv2906-40

Record destruction

• Shapiro v. DOJ, No. 18-5123 (CADC Dec. 20, 2019), https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/9DA4FE5812FE7B23852584D600578914/$file/18-5123-1821026.pdf

Agency Records

• Cause of Action Inst. v. Off. of Mgmt. & Budget, 10 F.4th 849 (D.C. Cir. 2021)

Waiver

• NYT v. DOJ, No. 17‐2066 (CA2 Sep 27, 2019)

Attorney's Fees

• FAC v. DOJ (9th Cir.)

Searching for records

• Aguiar v. DEA (D.C. Cir. 2017) ✓
• RCFP v. FBI (D.C. Cir. 2017) ✓
• Muckrock v. CIA, No. 14-CV-997 (KBJ), 2018 WL 1129713 (D.D.C.) ✓
• Nightingale et al v. USCIS et al., No. 3:19-cv-03512 (ND CA) https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/default/files/litigation_documents/nightingale_summary_judgement_order.pdf

Standing

A Better Way for BPA v. United States Dep't of Energy Bonneville Power Admin., No. 16-35414, 2018 WL 2376165 (9th Cir. May 25, 2018)✓

Proactive Disclosure

NYT v. EPA, No. 17-2588 (Jul. 10, 2018, D.D.C.) https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4595757-2018-07-10-Judge-Opinon-Re-NYT-v-EPA-Show-Temp.html✓

Segregability

• Bradley S. Waterman v. Internal Revenue Service, No. 18-5037, (DC Circuit, Feb. 5, 2019)

Administrative/Technical To Do

• Possible extensions to add:
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter
• logo✓
• Create wiki markup guide page
  • Better solution--enable advanced wikieditor by default--includes help/guidance on editing. Need to resolve missing icon issue.✓
    • Need to make sure advanced wikieditor is enabled by default for new users✓
• Switch order of references and external links headings on pages✓
• Start FOIA Wiki✓
• Need to make email address required/verified before editing enabled✓
• Change verification method to ReCaptcha. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit✓