Dennis R. Walsh v. United States Department of Veterans Affairs

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a plaintiff’s policy-or-practice claim was moot when he had shown only a “faint possibility” that he would “ever request additional records”
• finding that FOIA precluded APA claim that sought relief for agency’s late production of records
• noting that “[w]e review the district court’s decision [entering summary judgment on mootness grounds] de novo,” and proceeding to address the specific question of voluntary cessation de novo
• considering “voluntary cessation” of unlawful conduct exception to mootness in a FOIA case, but finding that the plaintiff failed to satisfy this exception
• rejecting application of the capable-of-repetition-yet- evading-review exception to FOIA claim because plaintiff failed to establish he would \request additional documents and that the VA will again fail to produce them in a timely manner\
• rejecting the viability of a separate APA claim in a FOIA case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).