Legal Opinion
Yanofsky v. U.S. Dep't of Commerce
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 30, 2018No. 16–cv–00951 (KBJ)PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KETANJI BROWN JACKSON, United States District Judge
Because the information and records that an agency possesses rightfully belong to the public, one of the key commitments underlying the Freedom of Information Act ("the FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. § 552, is the principle that the federal government should not profit from its dissemination of documents in response to FOIA requests. See H.R. Rep. No. 99-560, at 26 (1986) (explaining that the FOIA reflects "[t]he policy of providing government documents at a price based on the cost of dissemination"). The FOIA accordingly contains an express provision that…
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- Donato v. Exec. Office for U.S. AttorneysCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2018
- Yanofsky v. United States Department of CommerceDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2020