Sai v. Transportation Security Administration

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that an informational injury can “be sufficient to establish irreparable harm if the information sought is time-sensitive” (citation omitted)
• confirming that the plaintiff’s complaint referenced the FOIA requests at issue in preliminary injunction proceedings
• noting that court “lacks jurisdiction over a [preliminary-injunction] motion when it raises issues different from those presented in the complaint”
• declining to find irreparable harm in part because plaintiff had not demonstrated that the requested records would be “vital to any current and ongoing debate” (internal quotation marks and alteration omitted
• “[U]nder FOIA, it is difficult for a plaintiff to demonstrate ‘irreparable harm’ that is in fact ‘beyond remediation’ because he is entitled to obtain all responsive and non-exempt documents at the conclusion of the litigation.” (quoting Chaplaincy, 454 F.3d at 297)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).