The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press will get a $145,000 settlement following a pair of lawsuits filed after an FBI agent posed as a reporter for The Associated Press and created a fake story.

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A federal judge has ordered a Parkville attorney to pay $1,000 in sanctions for accusing another judge of lying and colluding with attorneys for the federal government in a Freedom of Information Act suit.

Tagged with: Freedom of Information Act Jack Jordan U.S. Department of Labor U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Where appellant challenged the adverse grant of summary judgment in his pro se Freedom of Information Act action, the district court did not err in dismissing the claims as duplicative of another pending litigation. Judgment is affirmed. Jordan v. U.S. ...

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A Missouri appeals court has overturned a ruling denying the release of records relating to the 1994 shooting death of a Missouri State Highway Patrolman, finding that federal law does not preempt the Missouri Sunshine Law in the case. A ...

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Where appellant challenged the grant of summary judgment against him in an action brought under the Freedom of Information Act, the judgment is affirmed because the agency showed that it fully discharged its obligations under the act. Judgment is affirmed. ...

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Argus Leader Media v. U.S Department of Agriculture (MLW No. 71651/Case No. 17-1346 – 6 pages)

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Holt v. Howard (MLW No. 68512/Case No. 14-3064 – 6 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Murphy, J.)

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Hulstein v. Drug Enforcement Administration (MLW No. 63368/Case No. 11-2039 – 7 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Bright, J.)

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Polsinelli Shughart seemed to have landed a dream job with the firm’s winning of an up to $87 million patents contract with the National Institutes of Health in July. The contract provides practically guaranteed work for a big, stable client ...

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The White House’s Office of Administration isn’t subject to the Freedom of Information Act and can keep from the public records of what could be millions of lost e-mails, an appeals court ruled. The unit of the president’s office performs ...

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The Eighth Circuit has affirmed a ruling in favor of the FBI on Leonard Peltier’s Freedom of Information Act request. The appellate court agreed that an in camera review of the 10,557 pages requested from Peltier’s file was not necessary ...

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