Snarr v. BOP (D.D.C.) -- ruling that: (1) plaintiff, a death row inmate, did not have standing to bring lawsuit for third party records because his legal defense team submitted the requests and failed to identify their client in the request or in any other correspondence with the agency; (2) plaintiff could not amend his complaint to substitute a new party in order to create jurisdiction.
Am. Immigration Council v. DHS (D.D.C.) -- explaining four factors that led court to grant plaintiff’s request for preliminary injunctive release, resulting in timetable for government to process records pertaining to its response to COVID-19 pandemic.
Malone v. U.S. Dep’t of the Treasury (W.D. Ky.) -- dismissing plaintiff’s claims against the IRS because he failed to administratively appeal from any of 15 requests he submitted to IRS.
Ctr. for Investigative Reporting v. DOL (N.D. Cal.) -- concluding that Occupational Safety and Health Administration improperly relied on Exemption 4 to withhold illness and injury data about Amazon, noting that the company actually and customarily treated information as non-confidential and that government did not assure confidentiality at time information was submitted.
Am. Civil Liberties Union of Me. Found v. DHS (D. Me.) -- concluding that U.S. Customs and Border Protection properly invoked Exemption 7(E) to redact most—but not all—records regarding the location, method of operation, and purpose of immigration checkpoints.
Summaries of all published opinions issued since April 2015 are available here.
