How FOIA Requests Signaled Problems With a “Bionic Pancreas” At a federal advisory panel meeting in 2018, a biomedical engineer named Ed Damiano stepped to the microphone – not just as a scientist. “I’m also a father,” he told regulators, describing his son’s...
FOIA Requests Point to New Pressure Over Abortion Drugs
FOIAengine: Advocates on Both Sides Push FDA for Data as a Senate Investigation Begins Even before Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) walked into a March 11 news conference to kick off an effort to ban the abortion drug mifepristone as unsafe – and days before he opened an...
The Deadly Tick-Tock of a Pacemaker Recall
FOIAengine: How FOIA Requests Pointed to Problems at Boston Scientific Months before Boston Scientific expanded its urgent warning this month about the risk of sudden death from its Accolade pacemakers, something quieter was happening inside the U.S. Food and Drug...
Kalshi and Polymarket Targeted by Journalists
FOIAengine: News Organizations Investigate Prediction Markets Several leading news organizations are investigating high-flying prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket, based on Freedom of Information Act requests submitted to the Commodity and Futures Trading...
The Epstein Files and MMTLP
FOIAengine: How a Grassroots Movement Saw New Evidence of a Conspiracy In December, a retired California Highway Patrol officer named Wilma Stone filed an unusual Freedom of Information Act request with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Stone asked the agency...
A New Wave of Litigation Over AI Chatbots
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...




