King v. DOJ, No. 15-1445, 2017 WL 5449803 (D.D.C. Nov. 11, 2017) (Moss, J.)

King v. DOJ, No. 15-1445, 2017 WL 5449803 (D.D.C. Nov. 11, 2017) (Moss, J.)

Re:  Request for records concerning plaintiff's criminal conviction

Disposition:  Denying plaintiff's motion for reconsideration

• Litigation Considerations:  The court holds that "[plaintiff] raises various substantive responses to the Department's motion for summary judgment, including challenges to the adequacy of the Department's responses to his FOIA request."  "He fails to offer any plausible explanation, however, for why he could not have previously raised these contentions."  "He has not identified any factual development that occurred after the Court issued its decision on the Department's motion, nor has he pointed to any intervening change in the law."  "As a result, there is no discernible difference between the documents [plaintiff] seeks to file out of time and his motion for reconsideration; they are one and the same, raising identical arguments directed solely to the merits of summary judgment."  The court finds that "[p]ermitting reconsideration under these circumstances would invite litigants to ignore the schedule set by the Court and to proceed on whatever timeline that happens to suit the litigant."