Event Title
Public-Interest Fee Waivers Under the Freedom of Information Act
Location
Duke Law School
Start Date
30-1-1981 10:30 AM
End Date
30-1-1981 11:30 AM
Description
The years since the adoption of the "fee waiver" provision have seen, if anything, an increase in use of the Freedom of Information Act predominantly for business purposes. This article seeks to assay systematically the fee-waiver policies of individual federal agencies and to measure those policies against the available evidence of the intent of Congress. The search for agency policies, conducted in Part II, involves the analysis of all agency regulations, as well as internal policy directives and agency decisions on administrative appeals, involving fee-waiver requests. The search for what the law requires involves a thorough study of the structure of the current statute and its predecessors as well as a survey of all legislative materials preceding the adoption of the fee-waiver provision. These materials are discussed in Part III, along with relevant court decisions. Finally, Part IV offers recommendations intended to further the purpose of the statute.
Related Paper
john E. Bonine, Public-Interest Fee Waivers Under the Freedom of Information Act, 1981 Duke Law Journal 213-278 (1981)
Available at: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol30/iss2/2
Public-Interest Fee Waivers Under the Freedom of Information Act
Duke Law School
The years since the adoption of the "fee waiver" provision have seen, if anything, an increase in use of the Freedom of Information Act predominantly for business purposes. This article seeks to assay systematically the fee-waiver policies of individual federal agencies and to measure those policies against the available evidence of the intent of Congress. The search for agency policies, conducted in Part II, involves the analysis of all agency regulations, as well as internal policy directives and agency decisions on administrative appeals, involving fee-waiver requests. The search for what the law requires involves a thorough study of the structure of the current statute and its predecessors as well as a survey of all legislative materials preceding the adoption of the fee-waiver provision. These materials are discussed in Part III, along with relevant court decisions. Finally, Part IV offers recommendations intended to further the purpose of the statute.
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