Legal Opinion
Cornucopia Institute v. United States Department of Agriculture
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 26, 2009No. 07-1912PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Between August 2005 and February 2006, the Cornucopia Institute submitted to the United States Department of Agriculture three separate requests for production of various public documents under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552. FOIA requires that a public agency respond to such requests within twenty days, id. § 552(a)(6)(A), but an agency may extend the period by ten days upon written notice to the party making the request, id. § 552(a)(6)(B). In response to each of these requests, the USDA informed Cornucopia that it was utilizing the permissible ten-day…
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