USRTK v. Department of State

Reference :

1:19-cv-2020

Complaint date :

July 8, 2019

Status :

Not judged

Place of jurisdiction :

United States, District of Columbia

Plaintiffs types :

Consumer Protection Organizations

Plaintiffs names :

US Right To Know (USRTK), Public Citizen

Defendants :

Department of State

Lawyers for Health and Environmental Justice :

Nandan M. Joshi, Patrick D. Llewelyn

Case nature :

Civil court

Type(s), Product(s), Active substance(s) :

Glyphosate

Requests :

Declare that the State Department’s withholding of the requested records is unlawful; Order the State Department to make the requested records available to plaintiff at no cost and without delay; Award plaintiff its costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees.

Name of the Court :

District Court of District of Columbia, United States

Jurisdiction level :

Summary :

USRTK submitted two FOIA requests to the State Department seeking communications relating to glyphosate in Europe in Dec. 2017 and Jan. 2018 after the European Commission had renewed the authorization for 5 years. There was no response from the State Department, so USRTK is going to court to order the State Department to make the requested records available to plaintiff at no cost and without delay.

Scientific references :

No scientifice reference for this case.