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