Ctr. for Immigration Studies v. USCIS (D.D.C.) -- ruling that plaintiff was ineligible for attorney’s fees because it failed to show its lawsuit caused USCIS to produce requested records, which included demographic data on Special Immigrant Juvenile Status applicants; reasoning that agency’s spreadsheet production appeared to result from routine processing rather than a litigation-induced “sudden acceleration,” and that plaintiff did not demonstrate that its lawsuit prompted USCIS’s later voluntary decision to provide a key explaining the spreadsheet’s status codes.
Long v. ICE (D.D.C.) -- following four rounds of summary judgment, granting ICE’s motion for summary judgment in part and denying it in part and holding that while some continued withholdings under FOIA Exemption 7(E) were justified, ICE again failed to show that certain other withheld materials from two databases posed a risk of circumvention of the law and therefore must be released.
Summaries of all published opinions issued in 2025 are available here. Earlier opinions are available for 2024 and from 2015 to 2023.