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Court opinions issued Apr. 13-14, 2022

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

Apr. 14, 2022

Vollmann v. DOJ (D.D.C.) -- finding that plaintiff was both eligible for and entitled to attorney’s fees regarding his pursuit of records concerning himself, but reducing amount of the award due to excessive time and excessive hourly rates charged.

Apr. 13, 2022

Buzzfeed Inc. v. DOJ (D.D.C.) -- determining that plaintiff was eligible for attorney’s fees because DOJ had been ordered to produce one email by a certain date, but that plaintiff was not entitled to fees because DOJ’s untimely response was reasonably excused by its backlog of prior FOIA requests and the breadth of plaintiff’s request.

Summaries of all published opinions issued since April 2015 are available here.