Legg v. Wash. Metro. Area Transit Auth., No. 16-1023, 2017 WL 2533344 (D.D.C. June 9, 2017) (Chutkan, J.)

Legg v. Wash. Metro. Area Transit Auth., No. 16-1023, 2017 WL 2533344 (D.D.C. June 9, 2017) (Chutkan, J.)

Re:  Request for records concerning third party

Disposition:  Granting defendant's motion to dismiss

• Procedural Requirements, Entities Subject to the FOIA:  The court holds that, "[a]lthough WMATA has a federal component because of Congress' oversight of matters pertaining to the District of Columbia . . . Plaintiff has not cited, and the court has not found, any authority that includes WMATA in FOIA's definition of an executive-branch agency."  The court further explains that "'Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia [with Congress' authorization] created WMATA, by interstate compact, to plan, finance, develop, and operate a mass transit system to serve the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.'"