Legal Opinion
National Security Counselors v. Central Intelligence Agency
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 15, 2016No. 14-5171PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge PILLARD.
PILLARD, Circuit Judge:
An individual who litigates pro se is ineligible for attorney’s fees under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); the same is not ordinarily true of an organization that represents itself. This appeal asks whether a particularly small nonprofit corporation that represented itself is barred from recovering attorney’s fees under FOIA for the same reasons that render a pro se individual ineligible.
Congress sought to encourage meritorious FOIA litigation by making any “complainant” who substantially prevails eligible to…
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