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Federal judge finds DOJ adequately searched for, disclosed records related to Bidens
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A federal judge determined on Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice adequately searched for and disclosed records to a Colorado attorney in response to his request for documents related to former President Joe Biden’s son and brother. In November 2020, Kevin D. Evans and his Greenwood Village law firm submitted a Freedom of Information…
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Bureau of Land Management’s do-over search for environmental records satisfied law, court says
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Two years after she ordered the Bureau of Land Management to redo its search for documents in response to an environmental group’s open records request, a federal judge now agrees the agency largely complied with the order. U.S. Magistrate Judge Kristen L. Mix originally found BLM did not fulfill its obligations under the Freedom of…
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10th Circuit rebuffs environmental group’s lawsuit over government records
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The federal appeals court based in Denver has rejected the arguments from a wildlife and habitat conservation group that the U.S. Forest Service failed to conduct a legally-adequate search for records – despite disclosing 140,637 pages of documents related to a controversial roadway project. Rocky Mountain Wild filed an open records request with the Forest Service…
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Lawsuit by Trump ally on trial in New York is tossed in Colorado
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Days into the ongoing criminal trial of Thomas J. Barrack, Jr., a prominent backer of former President Donald Trump, a federal judge in Colorado dismissed a lawsuit Barrack brought against the U.S. government seeking access to documents. Barack is currently standing trial in the Eastern District of New York for allegedly failing to register as…