FOIA

AGO hiding at least four contracts giving other states’ AGs veto power over Virginians’ right to see Virginia public records, claiming the secrecy pacts themselves are secret CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, April 29, 2020 – Today the public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO) filed suit against the Virginia Office of the Attorney General (AGO) under Virginia’s Freedom of…

PRESS RELEASE: November 4, 2019 8:00 AM Citing Newly Obtained Paris Climate Treaty Memo, GAO Files Suit against State Dept. Seeking Obama Administration Documents As President Trump prepares to formally withdraw from Paris a newly obtained Memorandum of Law, if genuine, represents “major political and legal scandal”, “unlawful entry” to treaty WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the public interest law firm…

By Chris Horner Yesterday, Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C., with local counsel Graven Craig, responded to a risible effort (see PDF document here) recently filed by Virginia’s Attorney General Mark Herring, styled as a “Plea of Nulla Bona”, in a public records suit in the Circuit Court for Richmond (Virginia). That “artful pleading” came in a state Freedom of Information…

As Washington Gov. Jay Inslee comes to Capitol Hill Tuesday to teach us “lessons from across the nation: state and local action to combat climate change”, public records — including some released here for the first time — offer the public a few eye-opening lessons about what Gov. Jay Inslee has been up to. Ten Questions for Climate Industry Entrepreneur…

(Washington, DC) — The public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO), had a victory on Monday in the Circuit Court for the City of Richmond (VA) in its effort to obtain what legal analysis could possibly lead Attorney General Mark Herring’s Office to declare to a group funded by billionaire climate activist Michael Bloomberg that the AG…

This is an action under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552, to compel production under one FOIA request for certain described agency records, to which request defendant has provided no response whatsoever and therefore has denied. These records are of great public interest and would further illuminate State Department assistance with an effort by a lobbyist…

This is an action under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552, to compel production under one request for certain described correspondence dated during specified periods in 2017 and 2018, to or from one Treasury official, which use specific, provided terms such as “Bloomberg task force”, “G20”, and “climate risk disclosure”.   Case: IER V TREASURY Complaint as…

This is an action under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552, to compel production of records in response to two FOIA requests to a component of HHS, the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) and specifically NIH’s National Institute for Environmental Health Studies (“NIEHS”). HHS has improperly denied the requests by failing to provide an initial determination,…

This is an action under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552, to compel production of records in response to two FOIA requests to EPA. EPA has improperly denied the requests by failing to provide an initial determination, produce responsive records or otherwise perform in accordance with its obligations under FOIA, as applied by this Court in…