Massachusetts District Court
Judge:Leo T Sorokin
Referred: Donald L Cabell
Case #: 1:13-cv-11967
Nature of Suit895 Other Statutes - Freedom of Information Act
Cause05:552 Freedom of Information Act
Case Filed:Aug 15, 2013
Terminated:Jan 28, 2016
Last checked: Tuesday Mar 10, 2020 9:12 AM EDT
Defendant
Department of Defense Agency
Represented By
Michael P. Sady
United States Attorney'S Office
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Rayford A. Farquhar
United States Attorney'S Office
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Deponent
James Sheridan
Represented By
James H. Rotondo
Day Pitney LLP
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Keith H. Bensten
Day Pitney LLP
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Plaintiff
Pro Se Party Thomas Stalcup
194 Saint Paul Street #5
Brookline, MA 02446
TERMINATED PARTIES
Deponent
Jerry Krill
Terminated: 10/30/2019
Represented By
John F. Batter, III
Wilmer Hale LLP
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GPO Sep 18 2015
District Judge Leo T. Sorokin: MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT. As to the records request of the MDA, the DoD's Motion for Summary Judgment, Doc. No. 27, is ALLOWED and Stalcup's Motion for Summary Judgment, Doc. No. 32, is DENIED. The Motions otherwise remain under advisement. The DoD shall supplement the record as described above within 30 days of this Order. The plaintiff may respond 14 days thereafter. re 32 Motion for Summary Judgment (Simeone, Maria)
GPO Oct 15 2018
District Judge Leo T. Sorokin: MEMORANDUM AND ORDER entered. 95 Department of Defense ("DOD") Renewed Motion for Summary Judgment is DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE. 101 Stalcup's Motion for Discovery is DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE. DOD shall have thirty days to submit further affidavit(s) that provide further detail about the design of its searches of the MDA, the OSD, and the Joint Staff sufficient to demonstrate beyond material doubt that its search was reasonably calculated to uncover all relevant documents, Nation Magazine, 71 F.3d at 890, in the ways described in this Order. With these affidavit(s), DOD may file a renewed motion for summary judgment witha memorandum limited to ten pages. Stalcup may file an opposition, limited to ten pages, due fourteen days after DOD's filing. DOD may file a reply limited to four pages within seven days thereafter. If the Court denies the renewed motion for summary judgment, its order will direct the parties to submit their joint or separate proposals for discovery. (Montes, Mariliz)
GPO Sep 14 2021
> Recommendation: that the Government's motion for summary judgment (D. 260) be ALLOWED in part and DENIED in part. Specifically, the motion should be allowed with respect to the MDA and JS portions of the plaintiff's FOIA requests and dMagistrate Judge Donald L. Cabell: ORDER entered. REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS re 260 OPPOSITION and CROSS-MOTION for Summary Judgment filed by Department of Defense Agency and 255 MOTION for Summary Judgment filed by Thomas Stalcup. Objections to R&R due by 9/28/2021. (Lara, Miguel)
GPO Oct 02 2021
District Judge Leo T. Sorokin.ORDER ON REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION (DOC. NO. 274) entered. For the foregoing reasons, the Court APPROVES and ADOPTS Judge Cabell's Report and Recommendation, Doc. No. 274, ALLOWS in part and DENIES in part DOD's motion for summary judgment, Doc. No. 260., and ALLOWS in part and DENIES in part Stalcup's motion for summary judgment. Doc. No. 255. Moreover, the motion for hearing, Doc. No. 270, is DENIED. The parties shall submit a joint status report within fourteen days stating joint or separate positions as to how the remaining issue of the OSD FOIA request should be resolved. re 255 Motion for Summary Judgment;260 Motion for Summary Judgment; 270 Motion for Hearing; adopting Report and Recommendations re 274 Report and Recommendations. (Simeone, Maria)

Docket last updated: 04/23/2018 11:59 PM EDT
Thursday, August 15, 2013
ELECTRONIC NOTICE of Case Assignment. Judge Richard G. Stearns assigned to case. If the trial Judge issues an Order of Reference of any matter in this case to a Magistrate Judge, the matter will be transmitted to Magistrate Judge Robert B. Collings. (Abaid, Kimberly)
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Filing fee/payment: $400.00, receipt number 1BST039244 for1 Complaint. (MacDonald, Gail)
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1 1 COMPLAINT against Department of Defense Agency, filed by Thomas Stalcup.(LaFlamme, Jennifer)
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Att: 1 Exhibit A,
Att: 2 Exhibit B,
Att: 3 Exhibit C,
Att: 4 Exhibit D,
Att: 5 Civil Cover Sheet and category form
2 2 General Order 09-1, dated January 6, 2009 regarding the E-Government Act and Personal Identifiers entered. (LaFlamme, Jennifer)
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4 4 Summons Issued as to Department of Defense Agency. Counsel receiving this notice electronically should download this summons, complete one for each defendant and serve it in accordance with Fed.R.Civ.P. 4 and LR 4.1. Summons will be mailed to plaintiff(s) not receiving notice electronically for completion of service. (LaFlamme, Jennifer)
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