News Orgs Rip Feds' Bid To Pause COVID-19 Relief Disclosure

By Khorri Atkinson, Law360, Nov. 17, 2020

Several news outlets fired back Monday at the Trump administration's bid to pause a recent D.C. federal court order to disclose records that would ​identify and provide information on all businesses that have received COVID-19 relief funds, arguing that the data is vital to the public's evaluation of the government's response to the pandemic.

Five major news organizations, including the New York Times, the Washington Post and Bloomberg, that secured a win earlier this month in their Freedom of Information Act suit for access to the records told U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg in an opposition brief that the U.S. Small Business Administration must not be allowed to delay its disclosure obligations further by requesting a stay of his Nov. 5 order pending possible appeal to the D.C. Circuit.

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