Whittle v. Moschella

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that administrative request for amendment and subsequent denial “is a necessary prerequisite to the Court’s jurisdiction [which] is explicit in the Privacy Act”
• holding that the FBI satisfied its showing that it was authorized to conduct the investigation at issue where it “identified] several sources for its authority to investigate the plaintiffs allegations.”
• holding that withholding of information pursuant to Exemption 7(C
• finding that plaintiff failed to state a claim for mandamus relief when he could not demonstrate that the FBI owed him a nondiscretionary duty to investigate his brother's death
• dismissing FOIA claims against three federal officials over whom the Court lacked subject matter jurisdiction
• dismissing mandamus claim requesting that the FBI and DOJ reinvestigate the death of plaintiff’s brother

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

25 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ransom v. Babbitt
  District of Columbia· 1999-09-30· cited 26×
• Taylor v. U.S. Department of Justice
  District of Columbia· 2003-03-31· cited 19×
• Barvick v. Cisneros
  D. Kansas· 1996-09-18· cited 14×
• Abdel Elnashar v. United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation, Minneapolis Office Myron Umbel, and Other Unknown Fbi Agents
  Eighth Circuit· 2006-05-03· cited 13×
• Flaherty v. President of the United States
  District of Columbia· 2011-07-13· cited 11×
• Santos v. DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY, OFFICE OF INFO.
  District of Columbia· 2004-03-31· cited 11×
• Stone v. Defense Investigative Service
  District of Columbia· 1993-03-26· cited 10×
• Dasta v. Lappin
  District of Columbia· 2009-09-25· cited 6×
• Carter, Fullerton & Hayes, LLC v. Federal Trade Commission
  E.D. Virginia· 2009-02-18· cited 5×
• Sewald v. Pyatt & Silvestri, Chtd
  N.D. California· 2001-03-29· cited 1×
• Flaherty v. Obama
  District of Columbia· 2011-07-13
• Cooper v. Stewart
  District of Columbia· 2011-02-08
• Wightman-Cervantes v. Mueller
  District of Columbia· 2010-11-12
• Voinche v. Bush
  District of Columbia· 2010-09-29
• Leitner v. United States
  District of Columbia· 2010-07-22
• Rachuy v. Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
  District of Columbia· 2015-02-06
• Abdel Elnashar v. U.S. Dept. of
  Eighth Circuit· 2006-05-03
• Lavictor v. Trump
  District of Columbia· 2020-05-18
• Boyd v. Trump
  District of Columbia· 2020-08-11
• Halliday v. Barr
  District of Columbia· 2021-02-11

Cites

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

• Allied Chemical Corp. v. Daiflon, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1980-11-17· cited 1,679×
• Carl Oglesby v. The United States Department of the Army
  D.C. Circuit· 1990-12-04· cited 1,525×
• Kissinger v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-03· cited 892×
• Harold Weisberg v. U.S. Department of Justice, (Two Cases). Harold Weisberg v. U.S. Department of Justice. (Two Cases)
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-10-05· cited 796×
• Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Abramson
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-24· cited 788×
• Cynthia King v. United States Department of Justice
  D.C. Circuit· 1987-09-28· cited 587×
• Senate of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico on Behalf of Judiciary Committee v. United States Department of Justice
  D.C. Circuit· 1987-06-23· cited 539×
• Lesar v. United States Department of Justice
  D.C. Circuit· 1980-07-15· cited 435×
• Michael Meeropol, A/K/A Rosenberg v. Edwin Meese Iii, Attorney General of the United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1986-05-28· cited 401×
• Pratt v. Webster
  D.C. Circuit· 1982-01-22· cited 359×
• Pittston Coal Group v. Sebben
  Supreme Court· 1988-12-06· cited 355×
• Dewey Baker v. Director, United States Parole Commission
  D.C. Circuit· 1990-10-09· cited 315×
• Arthur B. Keys, Jr. v. United States Department of Justice
  D.C. Circuit· 1987-10-02· cited 227×
• Betty Martin v. Office of Special Counsel, Merit Systems Protection Board
  D.C. Circuit· 1987-06-05· cited 174×
• Edward J. Petrus, M.D. v. Otis R. Bowen, M.D., Secretary of Health & Human Services, Defendants
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-12-11· cited 167×
• Council of and for the Blind of Delaware County Valley, Inc. v. Donald T. Regan, Secretary of the Treasury
  D.C. Circuit· 1983-06-10· cited 162×
• Frank Derek Greentree v. U. S. Customs Service Frank Derek Greentree v. Drug Enforcement Administration
  D.C. Circuit· 1982-03-26· cited 75×
• Esquire, Inc. v. Barbara A. Ringer
  D.C. Circuit· 1978-09-22· cited 65×
• Gilbert R. Schmerler v. Federal Bureau of Investigation
  D.C. Circuit· 1990-04-30· cited 40×
• W. Lee Birch v. United States Postal Service
  D.C. Circuit· 1986-10-24· cited 37×