Matlack, Inc. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency

How courts have described this case

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• finding EPA to have lacked a reasonable basis for withholding but refusing to grant a fee award nonetheless
• determining that this factor favored an attorney’s fees award, in part, because although the governmental agency asserted that it had a “large docket of [FOIA] appeals and are working as quickly as possible to resolve them,” it did many years into the future
• release of similar data to party that could be liable for clean-up of Superfund site yields minimal public benefit
• commercial interest weighing against fee award where plaintiff’s “underlying incentive to engage in this FOIA litigation was to evaluate the possibility of avoiding liability for the clean-up of the Site”
• request to aid in fight of designation as PRP for Superfund Site

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).