Chilivis v. Securities & Exchange Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• 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

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

55 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Unnamed case
  Eleventh Circuit· 1982-06-17· cited 373×
• Tiffany Williams v. Board of Regents
  Eleventh Circuit· 2007-02-09· cited 284×
• Beatrice Maynard v. Central Intelligence Agency, Beatrice Maynard v. Central Intelligence Agency
  First Circuit· 1993-02-04· cited 232×
• Animal Legal Defense Fund v. U.S. Food & Drug Administration
  Ninth Circuit· 2016-09-02· cited 219×
• In the Matter of Ulyssus George Wade, Joyce Wade, and U.G. Wade Trucking, Inc., Debtors-Appellants
  Seventh Circuit· 1992-07-28· cited 149×
• Fortner v. Thomas
  Eleventh Circuit· 1993-02-18· cited 112×
• Burns v. Lawther
  Eleventh Circuit· 1995-06-07· cited 60×
• Moye, O'Brien, O'Rourke, Hogan, & Pickert v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2004-07-14· cited 52×
• Earl F. Debold v. William R. Stimson, Director of Support, U.S. Post Office, Gary, Indiana
  Seventh Circuit· 1984-06-01· cited 49×
• Hunton & Williams v. United States Department of Justice
  Fourth Circuit· 2010-01-04· cited 44×
• Florida House of Representatives, Honorable T.K. Wetherell, Speaker, Cross-Appellant v. United States Department of Commerce, Cross-Appellee
  Eleventh Circuit· 1992-05-27· cited 42×
• Ralph H. Currie, Jr., and Carpets by Ralph Currie, Inc. v. Internal Revenue Service
  Eleventh Circuit· 1983-05-02· cited 38×
• Cochran v. United States
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-09-06· cited 38×
• The News-Press v. U. S. Dept. of Homeland Security
  Eleventh Circuit· 2007-06-22· cited 34×
• People Ex Rel. Ulrich v. Stukel
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1997-12-31· cited 33×
• David Ely v. Federal Bureau of Investigation
  Eleventh Circuit· 1986-02-10· cited 32×
• Onyiah v. St. Cloud State University
  D. Minnesota· 2009-09-17· cited 29×
• L.A. Linsteadt and Wannelle Linsteadt v. Internal Revenue Service and Roscoe L. Egger, Commissioner
  Fifth Circuit· 1984-04-16· cited 26×
• Michael C. Antonelli v. Drug Enforcement Administration, and Peter B. Bensinger, Administrator
  Seventh Circuit· 1984-07-24· cited 21×
• Office of the Capital Collateral Counsel, Northern Region of Florida, as counsel for Michael Mordenti v. Dept. of Justice
  Eleventh Circuit· 2003-05-20· cited 19×