Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics v. Federal Election Commission

How courts have described this case

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• holding that for documents to be “promptly” produced under FOIA, they must typically be produced “within days or a few weeks” of a determination, not “months or years”
• holding that administrative exhaustion did not apply because the agency did not make a determination within 20 days and did not notify Plaintiff of his appeal rights until 75 days after the FOIA request was made
• holding that administrative exhaustion did not apply because the agency did not make a determination within 20 days and did not notify Plaintiff of his appeal rights until 75 days after the FOIA request was made
• stating that more than “an initial statement that the agency will generally comply with a FOIA request and will produce non-exempt documents and claim exemptions in the future” is required
• explaining that review of a district court’s grant of summary judgment is de novo
• holding the only remedy for an agency’s 17 delayed processing of a FOIA request is the ability to file suit without first exhausting 18 administrative remedies

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).