Lujan v. Defs. of Wildlife

Holding that the elements of standing "must be supported in the same way as any other matter on which the plaintiff bears the burden of proof"

Allen v. Wright

Holding that, even when plaintiffs allege "one of the most serious injuries recognized in our legal system," it's not justiciable where "the chain of causation between the challenged Government conduct and the asserted injury are far too weak for the chain as a whole to sustain respondents' standing"

U.S. Dept. of Justice v. Reporters Committee

Holding that disclosure of "[o]fficial information that sheds light on an agency's performance of its statutory duties falls squarely within [FOIA's] statutory purpose"

Federal Election Comm'n v. Akins

Holding that inability to procure information to which Congress has created a right in the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 qualifies as concrete injury satisfying Article III's standing requirement

Public Citizen v. Department of Justice

Holding that plaintiff advocacy organizations' inability to obtain information that Congress made subject to disclosure under the Federal Advisory Committee Act "constitutes a sufficiently distinct injury to provide standing to sue"

Campbell v. United States Dept. of Justice

Holding that an agency could not decline to search beyond one record system when records in that system themselves indicated that there were undiscovered responsive records in other record systems, because "[a]n agency has discretion to conduct a standard search in response to a general request, but it must revise its assessment of what is 'reasonable' in a particular case to account for leads that emerge during its inquiry"

Spann v. Colonial Village, Inc.

Holding plaintiffs had standing because their alleged injury, the depletion of resources which were diverted to enforcement actions surrounding the advertisements, was concrete and fairly traceable

Worth v. Jackson

Holding that expiration of policy mooted challenge to that policy

Armstrong v. Bush

Holding that PRA impliedly precludes judicial review of decision to destroy presidential records

Croixland Prop. Ltd. Parts. v. Corcoran

Holding that allegedly defamatory statement must "lead the listener to conclude that the speaker is referring to the plaintiff by description, even if the plaintiff is never named or is misnamed"

Section 552 - Public information; agency rules, opinions, orders, records, and proceedings

Holding that the Court's entering of a “Stipulation and Order” approving the parties' terms of dismissal did not amount to a “court-ordered consent decree” that would render the plaintiff the prevailing party

Section 3301 - Definition of records

Providing that federal "records" must be, inter alia, "preserved or appropriate for preservation by that agency . . . as evidence of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities of the Government or because of the informational value of data in them"

Section 3101 - Records management by agency heads; general duties

Requiring the "head of each [f]ederal agency" to "make and preserve records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the agency"

Section 2101 - Definitions

Section 2902 - Objectives of records management

Listing first among Act's goals the "[a]ccurate and complete documentation of the policies and transactions of the Federal Government"