Nationwide Building Maintenance, Inc. v. Arthur Sampson, Administrator, U. S. General Services Administration

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the government’s failure to comply with FOIA’s time requirements does not preclude a court from rejecting a fee request
• recognizing that the government’s failure to comply with FOIA’s time requirements does not preclude a court from rejecting a fee request
• stating that the touchstone of the determination to award attorney’s fees must be whether such an award is necessary to implement FOIA
• stating that a court ordinarily will not award fees if FOIA was used as a substitute for discovery in private litigation with the government
• directing that “the [trial] courts should consider the four factors discussed in the committee reports” in determining whether to award fees
• commenting that the § 552(a)(4)(E) “contemplates a reasoned exercise of the courts’ discretion taking into account all relevant factors”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).