FOIAengine: Signals From a FOIA Request After a Landmark Settlement Megan Garcia was certain her 14-year-old son’s tragic suicide in 2024 was caused by a Game of Thrones-inspired AI chatbot. Represented by class action product liability law firm Normand PLLC, she...
How Journalists Use FOIA as an Investigative Tool
FOIAengine: Hundreds of Requests Probing How FDA Weighs Risk and Responds to Warnings A new tranche of just-released Freedom of Information Act requests from news organizations shows how reporters are using the act as an investigative tool to reconstruct internal...
Emergent Biosolutions, Insider Trading, and the Gemba Shuffle
FOIAengine: Media Requests Were Warnings, Months Before Bad News Hit 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...
How Lawyers Use FOIA for Radically Different Agendas
FOIAengine: A Tale of Two Law Firms 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 lawyers. As two law firms’ 2025 FOIA...
How Hedge Funds Use FOIA to Stay Ahead of the Market
FOIAengine: Warning Letters and Inspection Reports in the Spotlight Freedom of Information Act requests filed with the Food and Drug Administration by hedge funds last month revealed big financial players closely eyeing warning letters, enforcement documents, and...
Media’s FOIA Requests Target FDA Gaps
FOIAengine: Growing Scrutiny of Drug Safety and Enforcement As GLP-1 weight-loss drugs surge in popularity, major news organizations are pressing the Food and Drug Administration for internal records that reveal what regulators knew about reports of dangers...




