Chief Judge James E. Boasberg dismissed a lawsuit by renewable-energy developers and agricultural producers challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s delay in processing Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) grants, ruling the...
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA et al v. DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG et al
A federal court in Washington held Thursday that farmers and rural businesses whose REAP grant applications sat unprocessed for over 18 months could not sue the Agriculture Department because they had bypassed a mandatory...
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. APPROXIMATELY 942,462.845 USDT
A renewable-energy developer and its farmer-clients sued the USDA a second time after losing the first round, only to run into the same jurisdictional walls — and one they never saw coming.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. GRAY et al
The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that text messages and emails stored on the private cell phones and email accounts of individual members of a state wildlife commission do not qualify as public records subject to disclosure under the...
Kentucky Open Government Coalition, Inc. v. Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission