Legal Opinion
Morley v. United States Central Intelligence Agency
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided March 29, 2017No. Civil Action No. 2003-2545PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
RICHARD J. LEON, United States District Judge
Plaintiff Jefferson Morley brings this action to recover attorney’s fees and costs from the Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”) under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”). The matter is before the Court on remand from our Circuit with instructions to consider, as part of the usual four-factor test for granting attor ney’s fees, the public benefit that Morley’s FOIA request was likely to have when he made it. See Morley v. CIA, 810 F.3d 841, 845 (D.C. Cir. 2016). The parties have briefed this revised version of the four-factor…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Nationwide Building Maintenance, Inc. v. Arthur Sampson, Administrator, U. S. General Services AdministrationCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1977
- Davy v. Central Intelligence AgencyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2008
- Catherine Cotton v. I. Michael Heyman, Secretary, the Smithsonian InstitutionCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1995
- Herbert L. Fenster v. Harold Brown, Secretary of DefenseCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1979
- Morley v. Central Intelligence AgencyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2016
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Morley v. Cent. Intelligence AgencyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2018
- Assassination Archives and Research Center, Inc. v. Central Intelligence AgencyDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2019