Even before Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) walked into a March 11 news conference to kick off an effort to ban the abortion drug mifepristone as unsafe – and days before he opened an investigation into its ...

The problem with the Accolade pacemaker had to do with its battery life. Thomas’ March 19 New York Times story revealed that, “for years, factory tests had revealed pacemaker batteries that were ...

Several leading news organizations are investigating high-flying prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket, based on Freedom of Information Act requests submitted to the Commodity and Futures Trading ...

In December, a retired California Highway Patrol officer named Wilma Stone filed an unusual Freedom of Information Act request with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Stone asked the agency for ...

Litigation involving the world’s three largest memory-chip manufacturers — Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology — has become a recurring feature of the federal court system in the ...

FOIAengine: Signals From a FOIA Request After a Landmark Settlement Six days after Judge Conway’s settlement order was issued, on January 13, Lawrence Cody of the Normand firm submitted a broad ...

Federal courts are increasingly grappling with the legal status of prediction markets, as exchanges offering contracts on political, economic, and social events test the boundaries of federal ...

In the early days of the Covid pandemic, there was big money on the line as pharmaceutical companies scrambled to produce vaccines. The world needed a miracle. The companies that could deliver it ...

The past year was one of profound economic uncertainty; the new Presidential administration introduced unprecedented changes in the administrative state. Tariffs signaled a new era of trade policy, ...

When most people think about the Freedom of Information Act, they imagine journalists prying loose hidden facts or activists holding officials accountable. But FOIA is also a workhorse tool for ...

FOIAengine: Was the FTC Involved in Operation “Arctic Frost”? The conservative Heritage Foundation continues to flood federal agencies with Freedom of Information Act requests seeking detailed records ...

Capitol Forum may be one of the more under-the-radar journalistic enterprises in Washington, but recently it was easily the most active when it came to filing FOIA requests with the Food and Drug ...