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Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. U.S. Department of Education

MOTION for Summary Judgment

9 Cited authorities

  1. Wilbur v. C.I.A

    355 F.3d 675 (D.C. Cir. 2004)   Cited 372 times
    Holding that "mere speculation that as yet uncovered documents might exist" is not enough to "undermine the determination that the agency conducted an adequate search for the requested records"

  2. Public Citizen, Inc. v. Department of Education

    Civil Action No. 01-2351 (ESH) (D.D.C. Nov. 10, 2003)   Cited 16 times
    Finding reasonable a search of 25,000 files for data irregularly kept in the agency's database when the search was “certain to turn up responsive documents”

  3. Physician's Committee v. D.H.H.S

    480 F. Supp. 2d 119 (D.D.C. 2007)   Cited 10 times

    Civil Action No. 06-1392 (JDB). March 26, 2007 Daniel Kinburn, Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff. Fred Elmore Haynes, U.S. Attorney'S Office, Washington, DC, for Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION JOHN D. BATES, District Judge. Pending before the Court in this Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") fee waiver case are cross-motions for summary judgment filed by plaintiff Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine ("PCRM") and defendant Department of Health and

  4. Edmonds Institute v. U.S. Dep't of Interior

    460 F. Supp. 2d 63 (D.D.C. 2006)   Cited 10 times
    Holding that Exemption 5 applied where "disclosure of material considered for but not utilized in" public reports "would reveal the editorial judgment of" agency staff

  5. Nation Magazine v. U.S. Customs Service

    937 F. Supp. 39 (D.D.C. 1996)   Cited 6 times
    Finding search not burdensome when agency only explained that the files were "neither indexed nor cross indexed" and only organized by date

  6. Fitzgibbon v. Agency for Intern. Develop.

    724 F. Supp. 1048 (D.D.C. 1989)   Cited 11 times
    Holding that records were not in public domain merely because they were available in agency's public reading room

  7. Rule 56 - Summary Judgment

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 56   Cited 328,736 times   158 Legal Analyses
    Holding a party may move for summary judgment on any part of any claim or defense in the lawsuit

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

    5 U.S.C. § 552   Cited 12,169 times   556 Legal Analyses
    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

  9. Section 1353 - Acceptance of travel and related expenses from non-Federal sources

    31 U.S.C. § 1353   Cited 1 times

    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Administrator of General Services, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Government Ethics, shall prescribe by regulation the conditions under which an agency in the executive branch (including an independent agency) may accept payment, or authorize an employee of such agency to accept payment on the agency's behalf, from non-Federal sources for travel, subsistence, and related expenses with respect to attendance of the employee (or