Friends of Etna Turpentine Camp, Inc. v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Serv., No. 17-1409, 2019 WL 3852732 (M.D. Fla. Aug. 16, 2019) (Howard, J.)

Friends of Etna Turpentine Camp, Inc. v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Serv., No. 17-1409, 2019 WL 3852732 (M.D. Fla. Aug. 16, 2019) (Howard, J.)

Re:  Request for certain records concerning issuance of permit

Disposition:  Overruling plaintiff's objection; adopting magistrate judge's report and recommendation

• Attorney Fees, Eligibility:  "The [court] agrees with [the magistrate judge's] assessment."  The court relates that the magistrate judge found that, "[g]iven the absence of opposition to the FOIA request, the pre-action communications indicating action on the FOIA request (consideration, collection, and review), the steady albeit arguably slow progress, and the regulatory process (track assignments, first-in, first-out policy), prosecution of this action cannot be reasonably regarded as 'necessary to obtain the information and that the action had a substantive causative effect on the delivery of the information.'"