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Huddleston v. DOJ, No. 20-447, 2021 WL 1837548 (E.D. Tex. May 7, 2021) (Mazzant, J.)

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Huddleston v. DOJ, No. 20-447, 2021 WL 1837548 (E.D. Tex. May 7, 2021) (Mazzant, J.)

Re:  Request for records concerning Seth Rich or brother

Disposition:  Granting defendants' second motion to stay scheduling order and deadlines

Litigation Considerations, "Open America" Stays of Proceeding:  "[G]iven Defendants' explanation for the requested stay, Defendants' proposed production schedule, and the absence of legal justification for [plaintiff's] opposition to the Motion, the Court finds that a stay of the proceedings is warranted."  "Defendants make clear that the strained resources of their departments and significant volumes of other FOIA requests should allow for production at a standardized rate of 500 pages per month . . . ."  "The circumstances Defendants detail in their Motion and reply plausibly warrant a reasonable delay of the proceedings."  "As well, '[a] number of [c]ourts have found a production rate of 500 pages per month reasonable under specific circumstances.'"  "Moreover, in this request for stay, Defendants have laid out a more specific and concrete timeline for document production."  "Defendants have provided more particularized detail regarding the nature of the document production and have proposed a realistic, tangible schedule for document production."

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Litigation Considerations, “Open America” Stays of Proceedings
Updated June 3, 2021