Cause of Action v. Federal Trade Commission

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• ruling that fee issue 9 for documents that agency produced without change was moot and “us[ing] the term ‘moot’ in the 10 colloquial sense to refer to an issue that is no longer of practical significance”
• indicating that the information-gathering element may be satisfied by a history of making FOIA requests
• noting that “nothing in principle prevents a journalist from producing ‘distinct work’ that is based exclusively on documents obtained, through FOIA”
• clarifying that posting qualifies as publishing even if readers have to “affirmatively access” the content as opposed to having it “delivered to their doorsteps or beamed into their homes”
• describing “social media authors[,]” “bloggers[,]” and “those who apply for [FOIA-fee] waivers” as “segments of the public” whose interest in particular information satisfies the second statutory element
• “An entity with an extensive record will ordinarily qualify with only a thin recital of its [future] plans (or perhaps none at all).”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).