American Bird Conservancy v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

MEMORANDUM OPINION

T.S. ELLIS, III, District Judge.

At issue in this now-concluded Freedom of Information Act1 (“FOIA”) case is *661plaintiffs motion for attorney’s fees, which raises the following issues:(1) Whether plaintiff is eligible to recover attorney’s fees under FOIA.(2) Whether plaintiffs filing of the complaint or plaintiffs litigation efforts in this case caused defendants’ disclosure of previously-withheld documents.(3) If so, whether the nature of the documents that plaintiffs litigation efforts caused to be disclosed warrants an award of attorney’s fees, and, if so, the amount of…