Catherine Cotton v. I. Michael Heyman, Secretary, the Smithsonian Institution

How courts have described this case

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• concluding defendant was reasonable in its withholding of records because it asserted plausible legal claim in response to plaintiffs request
• explaining that the public-benefit prong turns on \evaluat[ing] the specific documents at issue in the case at hand\
• upholding District Court’s decision that the Smithsonian is an “agency” under the FOIA
• “When a litigant seeks disclosure for a commercial benefit or other personal reasons, an award of fees is usually inappropriate.”
• “Direct estoppel, as opposed to collateral estoppel, governs the preclusive effect of a litigated issue in a separate pro- ceeding within a single suit.”
• “When a litigant seeks disclosure for a commercial benefit or other personal reasons, an award of fees is usually inappropriate.”

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