| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
I. Whether, after the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016, an agency invoking Exemption 7(D) must, in addition to establishing that the exemption applies, se… |
| 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 |
Does FOIA allow agencies to assert Glomar responses to a FOIA request? Second, if FOIA allows Glomar responses, must agencies actually search for resp… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
When a federal agency responds to a request for records under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, it may assert a "Glomar response," neith… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Petitioner ask this court for review matters of law that were present at Appellate Court level but not replied.
Because petitioner incarcerated and u… |
| 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 |
I. Whether, given "the accepted rule that a complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the pla… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Must a plaintiff facing a motion for
summary judgment provide evidence that the movant
has acted in bad faith before obtaining discovery
under Rule… |
| 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 |
1.) Can a US District Court Judge determine that a an excised Document released under
The Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, consisting only … |
| 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, on a valid claim arising under the FOIA, a Trial Court may not properly dismiss, sua sponte, a case, without decision, where the requested Ag… |
| 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 |
1) When a person requests records from a federal agency
under the Freedom of Information Act, may the
agency redact the requester 's own name from t… |
| 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 Appellant presented a justiciable issue, where the choice of the Virginia Governor and the State Health Commissioner, failed to represent "a r… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the agency records at issue in this case are exempt from disclosure under any of the nine exemptions under the FOIA.
2. Whether non-exempt… |
| 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 |
1. Whether, under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), lower courts
may disregard, violate or change the plain language of the judicial review
pro… |
| 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 |
To oppose release under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") of two emails, an agency asserted FOIA Exemption 4 based on the attorney-client privil… |
| 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 |
The question presented is whether section 5148 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 |
1. 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… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. Does 28 U.S.C. §2401 (a) apply to FOIA?" The government is using 28 U.S.C. §2401(a) to claim that Plaintiff passed the six (6) year statute of limi… |
| 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? This petition challenges the constitutionality of the federal Home Equity Conversion Mo… |
| 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 thus resulting in a severe departure from the typica… |
| 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 |
Ground One
The District Court, Appeals Court for the Districtof Columbia Circuit committed reversible legal error, by improperly categorizing and misa… |