The James Madison Project v. NSA (D. Md.) — ruling that NSA properly relied on Exemptions 1 and 3 to withhold intelligence records concerning hostile country’s “high-powered microwave system weapon” that was discussed in agency’s 2014 unclassified memo to a former employee.
Elliott v. U.S. Dept. of Agric. (D. Md.) -- dismissing plaintiff’s claim because he failed to administratively appeal from agency’s “no records” response before filing his lawsuit.
Stonehill v. DOJ (D.D.C.) -- determining, in most relevant part, that plaintiff was a proper party because the FOIA requests at issue—which were submitted by her attorney—all identified plaintiff and referred to an attached power of attorney document that identified plaintiff’s attorney; further noting that agency’s summary judgment motion made clear that agency was aware of attorney’s representation of plaintiff in “this string of related FOIA actions going back decades.”
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