Hairston, Sr. v. Admin. Office of the U.S. Courts, No. 25-1139, 2025 WL 1305327 (D.D.C. Apr. 30, 2025) (Chutkan, J.)

Hairston, Sr. v. Admin. Office of the U.S. Courts, No. 25-1139, 2025 WL 1305327 (D.D.C. Apr. 30, 2025) (Chutkan, J.)

Re: Request that Administrative Office of the United States Courts (“AO”) release “‘under the [FOIA,] [a] categorical list of all denials from 2020 to present . . . for a Writ of certiorari to issue’”

Disposition:  Dismissing plaintiff’s complaint

• Litigation Considerations, Pleadings; Procedural Requirements, Entities Subject to the FOIA: The court finds that “[i]t is not clear that Plaintiff actually has submitted a valid FOIA request to an agency.” “And if Plaintiff had submitted a FOIA request to the AO, the AO is not obligated to respond because it ‘is not subject to FOIA requests.’”