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Small business advocate wins $475,000 in legal fees after 4-year fight with federal government

August 6, 2018 By Nancy Cleveland

After four years and expenses of more than $700,000, a California-based small business advocate on Thursday won an agreement from the Justice and Defense departments to pay his legal fees for litigation forcing the government to release confidential contracting data.

Lloyd Chapman, the outspoken founder of the Petaluma-based American Small Business League, declared victory in what he called an “historic” move by Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to require the government to pay Chapman $475,000.

Neither Justice nor the Pentagon would comment on the case to Government Executive, but Chapman’s award was confirmed by his Washington attorney, Jon Cuneo of Cuneo, Gilbert & Laduca.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.govexec.com/contracting/2018/08/small-business-advocate-wins-475k-legal-fees-after-4-year-fight-government/150280/

Filed Under: Contracting News Tagged With: American Small Business League, ASBL, Comprehensive Subcontracting Plan Test Program, DoD, DOJ, Freedom of Information Act, Justice Dept., open records, small business, subcontracting, subcontracting goals, subcontracting plan, subcontracting test program

This group could make — or break — FOIA reform

December 16, 2013 By ei2admin

A proposed advisory committee to modernize how agencies comply with the Freedom of Information Act could herald a major improvement in relations between government agencies and the researchers, journalists and others who seek documents from them, a privacy advocate says.

If the committee is poorly composed or led by agencies like the Justice Department that have typically advocated more latitude for agencies to deny records requests, however, it could prove little use, said Ginger McCall, federal policy manager at the Sunlight Foundation, which advocates for government transparency.

“At the very least it would do no harm, and it has the potential to do great good depending on the composition,” McCall said. “I’d want it to include people who are knowledgeable about FOIA and passionate and willing to take agencies to task. If it’s stacked with people who are very friendly with agencies and more concerned about maintaining their relationship with agencies, then that would not be good.”

Ideally the committee should include groups from outside government that have deep experience both requesting documents under FOIA and litigating over documents the government refuses to release, she said.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2013/12/group-could-make-or-break-foia-reform/75429 

 

Filed Under: Contracting News Tagged With: EPA, FOIA, open records, Sunlight Foundation

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