| 25-513 |
Adele Jeffords Pope v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-10-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
contempt due-process estate-law first-amendment foia-request judicial-order |
1. Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court's interpretation and enforcement of its 2015 Order violates the First Amendment.
2. Whether the South Car… |
| 23-1207 |
Assassination Archives and Research Center, et al. v. Central Intelligence Agency |
District of Columbia |
2024-05-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cia-records dc-circuit declassification executive-order executive-orders first-circuit foia-request jfk-assassination kennedy-assassination national-security |
1. Whether the CIA may refuse to search and disclose its operational records that relate to the presence of a convicted Nazi assassin in the company o… |
| 23-965 |
Jin-Pyong Peter Yim v. National Institutes of Health |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-records agency-response foia-request freedom-of-information-act government-transparency non-exempt-records record-request record-specification responsive-records |
When the National Institutes of Health ("NIH ")
failed to respond to a record request within 20 busi
ness days, as required by statute, Petitioner ("… |
| 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… |
| 22-6689 |
Andrew J. Johnston v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-agency federal-deposit-insurance-corporation foia-request freedom-of-information-act insurance-coverage separation-of-powers |
Are the separation of powers violated by the sweeping construction of FDIC insurance as a substantive jurisdictional element in eight federal courts o… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 21-38 |
Henry E. Gossage v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-procedure claim-processing-rule due-process equitable-tolling foia-request jurisdiction jurisdictional-deadline misconduct opm-investigation subject-matter-jurisdiction want-of-service |
1. Whether the 60-day filing deadline is subject to equitable tolling beyond the control of the Petitioner or under "Unique or Personal Circumstances … |
| 20-1051 |
Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Hillary Rodham Clinton, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-procedure civil-procedure contempt discovery discovery-order foia-request intervenor judicial-review mandamus post-judgment-appeal writ-of-intervention |
1. Whether a witness can seek a writ of mandamus and bypass the "disobedience and contempt route to appeal a discovery order" by becoming an interveno… |
| 20-114 |
Michael Edward Bufkin v. Scottrade, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law arbitration-dispute civil-procedure compelled-arbitration due-process finra foia-request judicial-procedure standing statutory-interpretation tax tax-controversy |
1. Was it error to compel FINRA arbitration of this "tax" dispute?
2. Was it error to refer anything to the un-consented-to magistrate?
3. Was it ab… |
| 19-1273 |
Assassination Archives and Research Center v. Central Intelligence Agency |
District of Columbia |
2020-05-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law cia-search cia-search-activities deliberative-process-privilege due-process epa-v-mink foia-exemption foia-exemption-5 foia-request freedom-of-information-act kennedy-assassination public-importance summary-judgment tax-analysts |
1. Whether CIA can assert a deliberative process privilege under Exemption 5 of the FOIA for its search activities in responding to a FOIA request?
2… |
| 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… |
| 18-7980 |
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 |
The petitioner confronted respondent by way of the United States Freedom Of Information Act and its subsequent civil action, for information relating … |
| 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), 5 U.S.C. §552 et seq., that an agency must… |
| 18-439 |
Peter Janangelo v. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure federal-agency federal-agency-discretion foia-exemptions foia-request freedom-of-information-act glomar-response in-camera-review information-disclosure judicial-discretion national-security vaughn-index |
1. If Glomar Responses are permitted should they be limited to instances involving national security, public safety, or public health?
2. Under what … |
| 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… |