American First Legal Foundation v. Department of Agriculture — Amicus Brief

Jeremiah Morgan FOIA Law, U. S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit

Today, our firm filed an amicus brief on behalf of Citizens United in an appeal challenging the Biden Administration’s withholding of agency reports in violation of the Freedom of Information Act. President Biden issued Executive Order 14019 on March 6, 2021, directing every executive branch agency to provide a report to the White House on ways Read More

FOIA Complaint — Public Advocate v. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

admin FOIA Law, Litigation, U. S. District Court, District of Columbia

Today we filed a complaint against the CDC for their refusal to respond to our Freedom of Information Act request for copies of records related to the CDC’s 2014 “Acting Against AIDS” campaign.

Link to Complaint
Link to Exhibit A
Link to Exhibit B
Link to Exhibit C
Link to Exhibit D
Link to Exhibit E
Link to Exhibit F
Link to Exhibit G
Link to Exhibit H

Citizens United v. Department of State — Opposition & Reply

admin FOIA Law, U. S. District Court, District of Columbia

Our FOIA suit for Citizens United to obtain additional documents about the Christopher Steele briefing at the State Department concerning the Steele Dossier on October 11, 2016 continues. Today we filed our Memorandum in Opposition to the State Department’s Motion for Summary Judgment together with our Reply to the State Department’s Opposition to our Motion for Summary Judgment.
Also filed today was Exhibit A to our filing, which consists of documents recently released by the State Department on July 5, 2019.
Lastly, we filed our Statement of Genuine Issues.

Citizens United v. Department of State — Motion for Summary Judgement

admin FOIA Law, U. S. District Court, District of Columbia

Today we filed a motion for summary judgment, memorandum of points and authorities, and two proposed orders in a FOIA case seeking records on an October 11, 2016 briefing which Christopher Steele gave at the State Department concerning his Steele dossier.  This is the case in which the State Department released never-before-seen Kavalec emails proving that the FBI was on notice that the Steele Read More

FOIA Bombshell Disclosure — CU v. U.S. Department of State

admin FOIA Law, Litigation, Press Coverage

Today we obtained for Citizens United, from FOIA litigation against the State Department, key documents concerning the FISA Warrants against Trump Campaign workers. For the first time, these documents demonstrate that even before the first FISA Application was filed, the FBI and Justice Department were on notice that the Steele dossier was unverifiable, contained errors, was politically generated, Read More

FOIA: Public Advocate of the United States v. U.S. Department of Justice

admin FOIA Law, Litigation, U. S. District Court, District of Columbia

On April 9, 2019, we filed suit on behalf of Public Advocate of the United States against the U.S. Department of Justice seeking to obtain certain records that the Department refused to disclose. Specifically, Public Advocate sought “copies of all records demonstrating compliance or noncompliance with the DOJ’s implementation of the Sessions USA Memo directive to appoint [religious liberty] Read More

Citizens United v. Department of Labor (Case No. 1:19-cv-00310)

admin FOIA Law, U. S. District Court, District of Columbia

Today, on behalf of Citizens United, we filed a Complaint under the Freedom of Information Act against the Department of Labor, seeking email communications sent to or received by email addresses which have been publicly reported to be associated with Obama’s Labor Secretary Tom Perez. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

 

Citizens United v. Department of Justice (Case No. 1:18-cv-01446)

admin FOIA Law, U. S. District Court, District of Columbia

Today, on behalf of Citizens United, we filed a Complaint under the Freedom of Information Act against the Justice Department, seeking certain records relating to communications between former Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Peter Kadzik and former FBI agent Peter Strzok.  The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Citizens United v. State Department — CU Opposition to State’s Motion for 27 Month Delay

admin FOIA Law

In one of the FOIA cases we have filed for Citizens United seeking emails relating to Hillary Clinton’s time at the U.S. Department of State, today we filed an Opposition to State’s last minute effort to avoid compliance with the court-ordered schedule to produce documents that it itself had earlier proposed.  The State Department now wants the Court to allow it a remarkable 27 additional Read More

U.S. Justice Foundation FOIA Requests for All Withheld Portions of Congressional Report on 9-11

admin FOIA Law

Today, our firm filed three FOIA requests on behalf of the U.S. Justice
Foundation to the CIA, Department of State, and Department of Homeland
Security, seeking all redacted portions of the Congressional Joint
Report on the events of 9-11 issued in December 2002.

The joint report was issued by the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
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Order Granting TSCL Motion in Part in FOIA Case Seeking Documents on US/Mexico Totalization Agreement

admin FOIA Law, Litigation

On October 30, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the disclosure of certain records relating to the U.S./Mexico Social Security Toatalization Agreement that we have been seeking for our client, The Senior Citizens League. Here is the Order and the Opinion.

A story about this decision appeared in Courthouse News Service entitled Read More