The Wholesale Nullification of FOIA

The Wholesale Nullification of FOIA

               The Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, is one of the most important legal tools Americans have for ensuring the federal government is transparent. Given the mammoth size of the federal bureaucracy, FOIA helps inform Americans of “what their government...
Ignoring Reality and the Law of Unintended Consequences

Ignoring Reality and the Law of Unintended Consequences

 The United States Forest Service (“USFS”) dropped the “Roadless Rule” (66 Fed.Reg. 3244) on the public in the last ten days of the Clinton administration, the outcome of which was to essentially deny access to and management of 58.5 million acres of National Forest...