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Tag Archives: Freedom of Information Act
December 2014 CFSAC Comments: HHS’s Complete Disregard for Law and Health of Patients
In January, I sued HHS and NIH for violation of the Freedom of Information Act, FOIA, in connection with my FOIA request for documents relating to the IOM study. I won the lawsuit by prevailing on my summary-judgment motion for … Continue reading
P2P FOIA Documents, Part 6—”File all these responses. No need to answer them directly.”
Here are more P2P emails that were produced to me after I won my IOM FOIA lawsuit. Today’s documents are NIH and AHRQ emails relating to inquiries from the public regarding the ME/CFS P2P program and the “TPs,” the talking points NIH developed … Continue reading
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Tagged AHRQ, Beth Collins Sharp, CFS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, David Murray, Fasten your Seatbelts, FOIA, Francis Collins, Freedom of Information Act, HHS, Institute of Medicine, IOM, James Anderson, Mariela Shirley, ME, ME/CFS, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, NIH, ORWH, P2P, Paris Watson, Pathways to Prevention, Susan Maier, Talking Points, TPs
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Federal Court awards $139,147 in Attorneys’ Fees Against HHS and NIH in IOM FOIA Case
The U.S. District for the Northern District of California awarded me today–having won my FOIA lawsuit–my entire attorneys’ fees in the amount of $139,147. Judge Vince Chhabria ordered the defendants, HHS and NIH, to pay me these fees. Please see below for a … Continue reading
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Tagged Attorneys' Fees, Baker & McKenzie LLP, Burmeister, CFS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, HHS, Institute of Medicine, IOM, Judge Vince Chhabria, ME, ME/CFS, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, NIH, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Unreasonable Conduct
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P2P FOIA Documents, Part 4–NIH: Neither Patients Nor Science Meant to Be Part of P2P
The documents I am releasing today at this link relate to the P2P working group. I published some of them previously in my P2P FOIA Documents, Part 2: “We also recently had a FOIA request on CFS.” But to I thought t would … Continue reading
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Tagged Buzzfeed, CFS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, David Tuller, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, ME, ME/CFS, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Oregon Health and Science University, OSHU, P2P, Paris Watson, Pathways to Prevention, Susan Maier, Suzanne Vernon, Working Group, Workshop
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US District Court: HHS/NIH Violated Federal Law in Response to FOIA Request for IOM Documents
I am pleased to give an update on my FOIA lawsuit: Yesterday, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that HHS and NIH (government) violated the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) when they improperly withheld … Continue reading
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Tagged CFS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, HHS, Improper Withholding of Documents, Institute of Medicine, IOM, ME, ME/CFS, Moot, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, NIH, Summary Judgment, the case law says exactly the opposite of what counsel for the government represented at the hearing, Unreasonably narrow interpretation, US District Court for Northern District of California
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Federal Lawsuit Filed Against HHS and NIH Relating to IOM “Study”
I’m m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!—Movie “Network” (1976) Today, I filed a lawsuit against HHS and NIH in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California for failure to comply with … Continue reading
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