Harrington v. City of Portland

How courts have described this case

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• affirming dismissal of actions as moot and referring to their facts in determining whether denial of fees appropriate
• “Even though Lovell’s [FOIA] suits were mooted by the production of the requested documents, mootness does not automatically preclude an award of attorney’s fees.”
• “The mere fact that the information sought was not released until after the suit was instituted without more is insufficient to establish that [plaintiff] substantially prevailed in either of his suits.”
• Thomas A. Clark, Circuit Judge, dissenting

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).