Legal Opinion

Informed Consent Action Network v. National Cancer Institute

District Court, District of Columbia

Decided March 25, 2026No. Civil Action No. 2024-0279Published

1Opinion of the Court

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK, Plaintiff, Case No. 1:24-cv-279 (JMC) v. NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Informed Consent Action Network filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking information from the National Cancer Institute related to an article that was published in and then retracted by a medical journal. After conducting a search, the agency withheld under FOIA’s Exemption 4 all of the responsive records it located. Informed Consent filed this lawsuit, challenging the…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Valencia-Lucena v. United States Coast GuardCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1999
  2. Brayton v. Office of United States Trade RepresentativeCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2011
  3. Larson v. Department of StateCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2009
  4. Marc Truitt v. Department of StateCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1990
  5. American Civil Liberties Union v. United States Department of DefenseCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2011

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