Legal Opinion
Oversight v. U.S. Envtl. Prot. Agency
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided April 29, 2019No. Civil Action No. 18-364 (TJK)PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TIMOTHY J. KELLY, United States District Judge
In June 2017, American Oversight submitted three requests to the Environmental Protection Agency for communications records under the Freedom of Information Act. The EPA, determining that each request did not reasonably describe the records sought, told American Oversight that it could not process its requests without additional clarification. American Oversight disagreed, arguing that its requests as written reasonably described the records it was seeking, and declined to provide additional clarification. The EPA consequently denied the requests.
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