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- Title
ATTORNEYS' FEES UNDER THE POST-2007 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT: A ONETIME TEST'S RESTORATION AND AN OVERLOOKED TOUCHSTONE'S ADOPTION.
- Authors
SHACHMUROVE, AMIR
- Abstract
The article discusses the effectiveness of the imposition of attorneys' fees in the post-2007 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in encouraging citizens to use their rights to information and in preventing agencies from withholding data. Also cited are the enactment of the Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National Government Act of 2007 (OPEN Act), as well as the court case Buckhannon Board & Care Home, Inc. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LAWYERS' fees; FREEDOM of information; FREEDOM of Information Act (U.S.); PROFESSIONAL fees; TRANSPARENCY in government; CIVIL rights
- Publication
Tennessee Law Review, 2018, Vol 85, Issue 2, p571
- ISSN
0040-3288
- Publication type
Article