Dec. 4, 2025
Informed Consent Action Network v. NIH (D.D.C.) -- denying plaintiff’s motion for attorneys’ fees in connection with requests submitted in 2021 for internal communications about an early COVID-19 antibody study; reasoning that the plaintiff failed to show its lawsuits caused NIH to release the records, as the agency had already begun processing the requests and delays were attributable to pandemic-related backlogs rather than litigation pressure.
Dec. 3, 2025
Musgrave v. DOJ (D.D.C.) -- determining that plaintiff’s 2020 request for “[a]ll emails in the FBI email system(s) or personal email folders on personal computers . . . used by the Washington Field Office and San Francisco Field Office mentioning @DevinCow” would require an unreasonably burdensome search and was therefore an improper request; rejecting plaintiff’s post-litigation attempt to narrow the search to “active” email accounts as of 2021.
Summaries of all published opinions issued in 2025 are available here. Earlier opinions are available for 2024 and from 2015 to 2023.