Wright v. Dep’t of Health & Human Servs. (D.D.C.) — granting the government’s motion to extend an eighteen-month Open America stay that expired in mid-April 2025 by an additional six months; concluding the Food and Drug Administration is entitled to an extended stay because “exceptional circumstances” continue to exist, namely, “court-ordered productions” in other litigation that has “created a volume of requests that vastly exceeded Congress’[s] expectation,” and a “significant reduction in workforce that was unplanned”; noting the agency has otherwise “exercised due diligence” in processing; also, denying the requester’s motion to “order President Donald J. Trump’s political appointees to personally review this case,” as such relief is unavailable under the FOIA,” but advising the requester that, given his “First Amendment right to petition his government,” he may raise grievances about the handling of his request with “political appointees within HHS and DOJ.”
Torp v. U.S. Office of Mgmt. & Budget (W.D. Mich.) -- adopting magistrate judge’s recommendation to grant summary judgment to OMB because plaintiff received all the existing forms he requested; rejecting plaintiff’s argument that OMB unreasonably excluded “the package of supporting information” submitted with those forms, noting that plaintiff “received exactly what he requested” and he “‘was free to submit a new FOIA request’”; further, rejecting plaintiff’s request for litigation costs because OMB disclosed the requested records prior to any court ruling and the delay in disclosure was explained by the difficulty in locating archived records.
Summaries of all published opinions issued in 2025 are available here. Earlier opinions are available for 2024 and from 2015 to 2023.