Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied: Judges Fail To Rule in a Timely Manner on FOIA Cases
By FOIA Project Staff, The FOIA Project, Feb 3, 2021
The latest case-by-case court records show that even after filing suits, FOIA requesters are facing longer and longer delays before their cases are decided. Indeed, the backlog of pending FOIA court cases is growing much faster than the increase in litigation because judges are failing to rule in a timely manner and allowing cases to drag on for years.
As of the end of FY 2020, the number of FOIA cases pending in the federal courts climbed to 1,683. This is more than three and a half times the number of pending cases ten years ago in FY 2010 when the pending court caseload was just 467.
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