Cornucopia Institute v. United States Department of Agriculture

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a FOIA claim becomes moot after the government produces all 8 Nos. 10-1889 & 10-3083 documents a plaintiff requests
• observing that the Open Government Act of 2007 (Pub. L. No. 110-175, 121 Stat. 2524 (2007)) eliminated, for purposes of the federal FOIA, Buckhannon’s requirement that a plaintiff receive judicial relief in order to substantially prevail
• rejecting the argument that the \court remained free to issue a declaratory judgment that [the agency] violated FOIA\ after the documents were produced
• “It is well established that the federal courts have no authority to rule where the case or controversy has been rendered moot.”
• “It is well established that the federal courts have no authority to rule where the case or controversy has been rendered moot.”
• “Plaintiffs are not entitled to monetary damages for violations of FOIA because 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4)(B) authorizes only injunctive relief.”

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