Michael Alan Crooker v. United States Department of Justice

How courts have described this case

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• “By eliminating the obstacle of attorney fees, [the attorney fees provision] ensures that all litigants have access to the courts to vindicate their statutory rights.”
• better practice would probably be for district court in ruling upon a request for attorney’s fees in FOIA actions to hold evidentiary hearings to decide whether a suit was necessary or not
• a fee may be incurred where a legal service organization represents the litigant
• FOIA, 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4)(E)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).