Mar. 6, 2026
Protect the Pub.'s Trust. v. USAID (D D.C.) -- dismissing plaintiff’s claim because the request was too vague and overbroad to allow USAID to determine which records were sought; the request asked for communications from certain USAID officials and broadly from “officials” in the White House, State, Treasury, and United Nations regarding the Taylor Force Act and U.S. funding to Palestinian territories, but it failed to identify most custodians, used imprecise terms for external officials, and left the funding scope and dates unclear.
Mar. 5, 2026
Am. Sec. Ass’n v. SEC (M.D. Fla.) -- granting in part and denying in part both parties’ summary judgment motions in a case seeking spreadsheets and similar records used by the SEC to determine penalties in its broker-dealer recordkeeping enforcement sweep; ruling that spreadsheets showing prospective penalty tiers for entities under investigation were protected opinion work product under Exemption 5, but spreadsheets reflecting final, imposed penalties and the underlying data considered were non-exempt.
McCann v. USCIS (E.D. La.) -- granting summary judgment to USCIS, holding that its supplemental declaration adequately explained the agency’s search for records concerning USCIS’s decision to issue a “Notice of Intent to Revoke Permanent Resident Status” and clarified that a disputed page had already been released.
Mar. 4, 2026
Judicial Watch, Inc. v. DHS (D.D.C.) -- concluding that DHS failed to show that it adequately searched for certain records concerning the Arizona border wall, noting that that the agency’s declarations did not sufficiently explain what systems were searched or whether it pursued leads to additional records.
Summaries of published opinions issued in 2026 are available here. Earlier opinions are available for 2025, 2024, and from 2015 to 2023.