Legal Opinion
Summers v. Department of Justice
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 26, 2009No. 07-5315PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GINSBURG.
GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:
Anthony Summers brought this action to obtain certain records from the Federal Bureau of Investigation pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act. In 2005, after Summers and the Government had settled the case, Summers sought an award of attorneys’ fees. The district court denied Summers’s request because, having settled, he could not be said to have “substantially prevailed” in the case and was therefore ineligible to receive an award under the FOIA. Summers argues the amendment to the FOIA in the OPEN Government…
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