Intellectual Prop. Watch v. U.S. Trade Representative

Edgardo Ramos, U.S.D.J.

Before the Court is a Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") suit involving a request for communications relating to the Trans Pacific Partnership ("TPP"), a wide-ranging, plurilateral trade agreement formerly negotiated among the United States and eleven Asia-Pacific countries.1 Intellectual Property Watch, a news organization that reports on international intellectual property issues, and its editor-in-chief, William New (together, "Plaintiffs") submitted their FOIA request to the United States Trade Representative ("USTR" or the "agency"). The parties cross-moved for…