FOIA requests to the federal government can be an important early warning of bad publicity, litigation to come, or uncertainties to be hedged and gamed out. They can also be a stand-in for civil ...

Shares of Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. rose 16 percent September 17 after the Food and Drug Administration approved Fayuvi, its gene therapy for Sanfilippo syndrome Type A, a rare and devastating ...

Coffehouse chain Starbucks is navigating some troubled waters, but it remains a ubiquitous sight across the United States; there are nearly 17,000 establishments in the country and tens of thousands ...

Flock Safety’s automated license plate reader (ALPR) network, now deployed across thousands of U.S. cities, has become one of the most contested surveillance technologies in the country. Critics argue ...

With half of the year over, Docket Alarm data can reveal critical insights into federal civil litigation trends for 2026 so far. In terms of the parties that have been involved in lawsuits the most in ...

Software company Meta, renamed from Facebook in late 2021, is navigating troubled waters in the courtroom. In March, the social media giant suffered a $375 million jury verdict in a case brought by ...

Across the United States, cybersecurity teams at federal agencies, defense contractors, telecom firms, and critical infrastructure operators are being warned to prepare for the next Russian ...

Litigation involving the world’s three largest memory-chip manufacturers — Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology — has become a recurring feature of the federal court system in the ...

FOIAengine: Signals From a FOIA Request After a Landmark Settlement Six days after Judge Conway’s settlement order was issued, on January 13, Lawrence Cody of the Normand firm submitted a broad ...

In the early days of the Covid pandemic, there was big money on the line as pharmaceutical companies scrambled to produce vaccines. The world needed a miracle. The companies that could deliver it ...

The past year was one of profound economic uncertainty; the new Presidential administration introduced unprecedented changes in the administrative state. Tariffs signaled a new era of trade policy, ...

When most people think about the Freedom of Information Act, they imagine journalists prying loose hidden facts or activists holding officials accountable. But FOIA is also a workhorse tool for ...