Legal Opinion
NKIHTAQMIKON v. Bureau of Indian Affairs
District Court, D. Maine
Decided December 2, 2009No. CV-05-188-B-WPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SECOND ORDER ON PLAINTIFF’S REQUEST FOR RELIEF
JOHN A. WOODCOCK, JR., Chief Judge.
In this long-pending Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation, the Court concludes that by failing to timely identify documents responsive to FOIA requests, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) violated FOIA, and the Court orders the Solicitor of the Department of the Interior (DOI) or her designee to certify that no previously unidentified FOIA-susceptible records exist within the agency. The Court allows the Plaintiffs attorney to petition for attorney’s fees and costs, but only for legal services upon which…
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