Chilivis v. Securities & Exchange Commission

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• holding that once the agency provided access to the requested documents, the FOIA plaintiff had no legally cognizable interest in challenging an order exempting the documents from review
• concluding that requestor had not substantially prevailed where “[t]he records actually ordered disclosed by the district court amounted to an insignificant portion of the documents sought in the FOIA request”
• “Neither a motion to dismiss nor a motion for summary judgment constitutes responsive pleadings for purposes of the federal rules.”
• \[R]ecords and documents held by federal agencies are presumed subject to disclosure unless the agency can establish that the material falls into one of the FOIA's nine exemptions.\
• “[R]ecords and documents held by federal agencies are presumed subject to disclosure unless the agency can establish that the material falls into one of the FOIA’s nine exemptions.”
• agency does not automatically waive exemption by releasing documents to other agencies

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