Muckrock, LLC v. Cent. Intelligence Agency

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that FOIA requester with “pending requests for emails that ha[ve] not been denied yet but would be denied based on this policy” had standing to bring policy 11 or practice claim
• noting that the role of the court is to evaluate only “the appropriateness of the methods used to carry out the search” (citation omitted)
• finding that the CIA had employed an unlawful FOIA policy based on its identical response to four similar requests for email records
• entering summary judgment for the plaintiff when the Court found “there [was] no genuine dispute that the CIA has employed a policy” that “violates the FOIA”
• granting summary judgment for the plaintiff on a policy-or-practice claim based on undisputed evidence that the defendant had refused to process at least twelve FOIA requests pursuant to the alleged policy
• granting summary judgment for the plaintiff on a policy-or-practice claim based on undisputed evidence that the defendant had refused to process at least twelve FOIA requests pursuant to the alleged policy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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  D.C. Circuit· 2018-09-24· cited 8×
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  D.C. Circuit· 2019-04-29· cited 7×
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  D.C. Circuit· 2018-04-16· cited 5×
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  D.C. Circuit· 2018-09-17· cited 1×
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  District of Columbia· 2018-08-24
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  District of Columbia· 2018-09-14
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  District of Columbia· 2018-09-17
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  District of Columbia· 2018-09-24
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  District of Columbia· 2018-09-27
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  District of Columbia· 2019-11-25
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  District of Columbia· 2020-05-26
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  District of Columbia· 2021-06-03
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Cites

54 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 135,235×
• Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-12· cited 24,791×
• Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner
  Supreme Court· 1967-05-22· cited 6,135×
• Safecard Services, Inc. v. Securities and Exchange Commission
  D.C. Circuit· 1991-03-01· cited 1,840×
• Carl Oglesby v. The United States Department of the Army
  D.C. Circuit· 1990-12-04· cited 1,525×
• Military Audit Project, Felice D. Cohen, Morton H. Halperin v. William Casey, Director of Central Intelligence
  D.C. Circuit· 1981-05-04· cited 1,309×
• The Nation Magazine, Washington Bureau, and Max Holland v. United States Customs Service
  D.C. Circuit· 1995-12-08· cited 780×
• Valencia-Lucena v. United States Coast Guard
  D.C. Circuit· 1999-06-25· cited 765×
• Charles E. Perry v. John R. Block, Secretary of Agriculture
  D.C. Circuit· 1982-07-30· cited 759×
• United States Department of State v. Ray
  Supreme Court· 1991-12-16· cited 755×
• Campbell v. United States Department of Justice
  D.C. Circuit· 1998-12-29· cited 731×
• Morley v. Central Intelligence Agency
  D.C. Circuit· 2007-12-07· cited 720×
• Wolf v. Central Intelligence Agency
  D.C. Circuit· 2007-01-16· cited 615×
• Defenders of Wildlife v. United States Border Patrol
  District of Columbia· 2009-06-11· cited 609×
• GUILLERMO FELIPE DUEÑAS ITURRALDE v. COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY
  D.C. Circuit· 2003-01-17· cited 566×
• American Civil Liberties Union v. United States Department of Defense
  D.C. Circuit· 2011-01-18· cited 521×
• Central Intelligence Agency v. Sims
  Supreme Court· 1985-04-16· cited 503×
• Alan L. Fitzgibbon v. Central Intelligence Agency Alan L. Fitzgibbon v. Central Intelligence Agency
  D.C. Circuit· 1990-08-14· cited 423×
• Washington Post Company v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  D.C. Circuit· 1989-01-06· cited 355×
• Johnson v. Executive Office for United States Attorneys
  D.C. Circuit· 2002-11-22· cited 292×