This page includes summaries of decisions decided between May 2009 and December 2012.  Decision summaries from May 2009 to April 2012 were compiled by month, with summaries from May 2012 to December 2012 complied by week. For decisions decided from January 2013 to the present, please visit our main Court Decisions page, or use the search tools on the right hand side of this page.

All decisions are presented both chronologically, based on the date of issuance, and topically.  To facilitate their review, each decision is broken down by exemption or procedural element.  Although we have designed these summaries to reflect the key aspects of each decision, by their nature these are summaries only, and such things as internal citations and quotations have been omitted.  Our goal is to provide readers with an overview of the cases as they are decided during the year, but for a complete understanding of any given case readers are, of course, encouraged to read it in its entirety.

Adequacy of Administrative Record	Injunctive Relief
Adequacy of Affidavit	Intervention
Adequacy of Declarant	Jurisdiction
Adequacy of Search	Litigation Considerations
Administrative Procedure Act	Mandamus Relief
Agency Records	Mootness
Agency Requirements	Motion for Contempt
Allegations of Bad Faith	Motion for Reconsideration
Allegations of Wrongdoing	Motion for Summary Judgment
Amending the Complaint	Motion To Dismiss
Appointment of Counsel	Motion to Intervene
Attorney Fees	Motion to Reopen
Brady or Jencks Act	Official Acknowledgment
Burden of Proof	Open Government Act Amendment
Choice of Format	Procedural
Common Interest Doctrine	Proper Party Defendant
Costs	Protective Order
Creating or Authenticating a Record	Public Acknowledgment
Damages	Publication of Regulations
Declarations	Public Domain
Declaratory	Reasonably Described Records
Delay	Referral of Record
Discovery	Referral of Request
Discretionary	Referral to Special Counsel
Exclusion	Remand
Exemption 1	Reprocessing
Exemption 2	Responsiveness
Exemption 3	Reverse FOIA
Exemption 4	Sanctions
Exemption 5	Sealed Documents
Exemption 6	Sealing Orders
Exemption 7	Segregability
Exemption 7A	Settlement Agreement
Exemption 7C	Standard of Review
Exemption 7D	Standing
Exemption 7E	Statute of Limitations
Exemption 7F	Stay of Proceedings
Exemption 8	Summary Affirmance
Exhaustion	Summary Judgment
Expedited Processing	Supplemental Order
Fees and Fee Waiver	Submitter Notice
Fugitive Disentitlement Doctrine	Timeliness
Glomar	Validity of Third Party Waiver
In Camera Review	Vaughn Index
In Forma Pauperis Status	Venue
	Waiver