Wildlands CPR v. United States Forest Service

How courts have described this case

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• finding that if a complainant receives relief “via ... unilateral change in position by the agency,” he is entitled to fees under the federal FOIA statute
• noting that the OPEN Government Act revived the catalyst theory and “gut[ted] the Buckhannon anal- ysis”
• finding constructive exhaustion where agency did not timely adjudicate an administrative appeal
• “Here, the consent decree reflects the parties’ understanding that entering it would not, by its terms, establish a prevailing party. It did not need to because the Act does.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).