Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Federal Bureau of Investigation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that order to which government stipulated sufficed for eligibility
• distinguishing Davy and Edmonds from OCAW on grounds that OCAW order was not, by its terms, “a directive to disclose documents”
• following Davy I and finding plaintiff to be a substantially prevailing party on basis of joint stipulation and order that required documents to be released by date certain
• plaintiff substantially prevails when “‘the order changed the legal relationship between [the parties],’ and ... the plaintiff ‘was awarded some relief on the merits of his claim’” by accessing two redacted videotapes (citation omitted)
• same regarding a court-approved stipulation to disclose specified documents by dates certain
• describing the government’s repeated deployment of this argument

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