July 1, 2022

Conn. Fair Housing. Ctr. v. HUD (D. Conn.) -- ruling that plaintiff was ineligible for costs and attorney’s fees because court played no role in settlement reached between the parties.

June 30, 2022

Am. Civil Liberties Union of Me. Found. v. ICE (D. Me.) (magistrate’s recommendation) -- following in camera review of records concerning asylum applications, finding that ICE properly withheld some but not all records pursuant to Exemption 7(E).

Rutila v. DOT (N.D. Tex.) -- on remand from Fifth Circuit, finding that: (1) FAA properly tolled its response to one of plaintiff’s requests concerning air traffic controller training and therefore plaintiff’s failure to pay estimated fees precluded his claim; (2) FAA performed reasonable search for certain emails; (3) five of plaintiff’s requests concerning agency employee were either not reasonably described or improperly required creation of new records; and (4) agency conducted adequate search for air traffic training manual.

Summaries of all published opinions issued since April 2015 are available here.