Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Rossotti, Charles

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• holding that fee-waiver applications must be “based on more than conclusory allegations” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• holding that if the agency responds before the plaintiff files suit, the administrative exhaustion requirement still applies
• concluding that the agency can cure its constructive waiver of the exhaustion requirement by providing the required notice to the requester, even if tardy, before the requester files suit
• determining that the court owes “no particular deference” to IRS interpretation of the FOIA fee-waiver provision
• noting that “the American people have as much interest in knowing that key IRS decisions are free from the taint of conflict of interest as they have in discovering that they are not”
• emphasizing that, where documents regarding an official's conflict of interest were sought, evidence of the conflict of interest was not required to support the fee waiver request, as disclosure would promote understanding of the issue

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