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Seven-Year FOIA Battle Ends with IRS Handing Over Records
IJ's seven-year fight for IRS forfeiture records has finally ended after the IRS turned over significant amounts of data. The close of the case comes more than two years after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the IRS cannot deliberately frustrate Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by quibbling over immaterial technicalities.
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Short Circuit: You Say Habeas I Say Mandamus <[link removed]>
We focus in on two Latin words this week: habeas and mandamus. Both usually mean “you lose.” But things somehow turned out differently in the Fourth Circuit and Fifth Circuit.
Short Circuit: Sovereign Immunity and NIMBY Neighbors <[link removed]>
Suing the United States government is really hard. So hard that someone’s family might not get to even if the government is at fault for that person dying in a flood. Plus, we walk through a procedural pretzel of property rights preventing people from putting up homes.
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