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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
