Reaves v. Jewell

1 Citing case

  1. Shortall v. Balt. Dist. U.S. Army Corps of Eng'rs

    Civil Action No. WMN-14-3904 (D. Md. Jun. 4, 2015)   Cited 5 times
    Stating that the controversy in the complaint that "'Defendants fail[ed] to produce documents' fell away when the Corps produced documents."

    FOIA "provides a mechanism for citizens to obtain documents from federal agencies, and grants federal district courts jurisdiction to review agency compliance with citizens' requests." Reaves v. Jewell, Civ. No. DKC-14-2245, 2014 WL 6698717, at *3 (D. Md. Nov. 26, 2014). Subject to certain statutory exemptions not at issue here, FOIA requires that federal agencies shall "upon any request for records which reasonably describe such records . . . make the records promptly available to any person."