Friday, November 03, 2017
I had missed this one at the time.
FIEGER v. GONZALES
On February 26, 2010, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan granted the Commission’s motion for summary judgment in Fieger v. FEC and dismissed the case, finding that the court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction because Geoffrey Fieger (Plaintiff) was not the party who made the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests at issue and so Plaintiff lacked standing to file suit.
Fieger is notorious, and the ruling here on standing seems to me to be wrong; a person has injury in fact if they are denied access to documents as a result of the withholding of those documents to a requestor. I need to have lunch with that guy sometime.
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