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Efforts to improve FOIA continue

Written by Justin Hemlepp
Saturday, 08 December 2007
Pushing along the effort to improve the Freedom of Information Act, Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) have introduced a bill that would bring previous House and Senate pronouncements on the matter in line with each other. “The new bill makes it clear that when a FOIA requester has substantially prevailed in a FOIA lawsuit, attorneys’ fees should be paid from annually appropriated agency funds,” the Austin American-Statesman reports. [FOI FYI, Statesman, AP, RCFP] Justin Hemlepp, publisher and executive editor of TheSequitur.com, is a third-year law student.

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