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Court opinion issued Apr. 10, 2026

Court Opinions (2026)Ryan MulveyComment

Informed Consent Action Network v. Food & Drug Admin. (D.D.C.) — granting the government’s motion for an Open America stay and staying litigation for “approximately seven months”; as with other recent cases, pointing to the government’s burdensome production schedule in a case in the Northern District of Texas, where the agency must “produce approximately 9.1 million pages by October 1, 2026”; denying the requester’s motion for discovery into the agency’s “multitrack process because such discovery would simply heighten the burdens on the agency, forcing [it] . . . to expend resources to reconstruct the statute of a queue from nearly three years ago,” and there is no evidence otherwise of bad faith.

Summaries of published opinions issued in 2026 are available here. Earlier opinions are available for 2025, 2024, and from 2015 to 2023.