Groups plan to drop Capitol closure suit
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and a coalition of labor unions plan to drop a lawsuit over the temporary closure of the state Capitol in December 2012 while the Legislature took...
View ArticleAssistant AG says Oakley's 'phantom philanthropists' don't qualify for police...
A Saginaw County judge has approved a motion from the Michigan Attorney General's Office allowing the state agency to get involved in a case about the release of the names of approximately 100 Oakley...
View ArticleICE Worksite Enforcement Audits Under Fire In New Suit
National Immigration Law Center and other legal aid and public interest groups filed a Freedom of Information Act suit Friday seeking access to records relating to worksite raids led by U.S....
View ArticleState law makes it harder for taxpayers to find out about legal settlements...
The Beecher School District paid nearly $250,000 to avoid two lawsuits over alleged sexual misconduct by a former public school administrator. But no lawsuit was ever filed, so taxpayers did not have...
View ArticleAP, New Mexico governor reach settlement over access to public records
Gov. Susana Martinez has agreed to release monthly reports that detail the spending of security officers who travel with her, part of an agreement reached with The Associated Press in a public records...
View ArticleJudge rules in favor of Davenport in open records case
Iowa District Court Judge Stuart Werling ruled Thursday in favor of Davenport in a Freedom of Information Act case. Judge Werling said the city "substantially complied" with requests by Dr. Allen...
View ArticleEEOC Wins FOIA Battle In Steakhouse Age Bias Dispute
A Kentucky federal judge on Tuesday booted Texas Roadhouse Inc.'s suit against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for allegedly failing to hand over documents related to its age...
View ArticleState Department to Be Slammed With FOIA Lawsuits
The State Department is facing a barrage of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits following revelations that Hillary Clinton exclusively used a private email address to conduct official business...
View ArticleFeds fight Hillary Clinton-focused email lawsuit
The State Department is fighting a journalist's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit demanding that the agency process for release a broad swath of email and other records produced by Hillary Clinton's...
View ArticleCitizens United files new lawsuit seeking State Department watchdog documents
Citizens United filed its fourth lawsuit against the State Department on Thursday, this time seeking documents related to the agency's Office of Inspector General during former Secretary of State...
View ArticleState Military Department paying $110,000 to settle public records suit
The state Military Department has agreed to pay $110,000 to a Seattle attorney and a King County activist to settle a long-running public records lawsuit centered on the Washington National Guard’s...
View ArticleJudge orders Oakley to pay in FOIA case, police reserve list to be released
Oakley's police department, ground zero for the controversy that's erupted in the small town of about 300, sat quiet Thursday night. But a judge's order for the village to pay nearly $19,000 for...
View ArticleWatchdogs file lawsuit against COD for withholding public records
A group of government watchdogs filed a lawsuit against College of DuPage on Thursday alleging numerous violations of the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. The lawsuit -- filed by Edgar County...
View ArticleDenied FOIA requests shed light on phone trackers
Chicago resident and political activist Freddy Martinez filed a second lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department in September for not responding to his Freedom of Information Act requests about...
View ArticleLawsuit demands information on use of covert cellphone trackers in Cook...
Cook County prosecutors are being sued to provide records of criminal cases that have involved the use of covert cellphone tracking systems — devices that have drawn the scrutiny of the U.S. Senate...
View ArticleLawsuit seeks records on 2 Clinton donors, questions influence on her decisions
The conservative group Citizens United filed a lawsuit Thursday demanding that the State Department turn over correspondence it hopes will help determine whether Hillary Clinton’s decisions as the...
View ArticleJudge sets June hearing in U of Illinois FOIA lawsuit
A Champaign County judge has set a June hearing for a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed against the University of Illinois by a professor denied a job at the school. The (Champaign)...
View ArticleOSG Hit With FOIA Suit Over 2011 Speech On Tribal Cases
The Office of the Solicitor General has unreasonably refused to turn over records concerning a speech by an OSG official that allegedly conceded misrepresentations by the office in two landmark U.S....
View ArticleEditorial: DEFENSES AGAINST FOIA: Non-Profit Planned Parenthood Succeeds In...
When inquiring minds want to know, non-profit organizations now have a stronger response. Last year, we posed the question: Can a non-profit maintain trade secrets and other confidential commercial...
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