COURT ORDERS DISCOVERY IN CREW LAWSUIT AGAINST WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION

11 Feb 2008 // Today, District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued an order allowing Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) to conduct limited discovery in the case of CREW v. Office of Administration (OA).

In this lawsuit CREW is seeking documents that the OA prepared assessing the scope of the missing White House email problem and its proposed recovery plan. The administration has taken the position that the OA is not an agency subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), despite responding to FOIA requests in the past.

CREW argued that discovery was necessary to determine whether the OA is indeed an agency as defined by federal law, and the court agreed.

The court ordered the parties to submit a discovery plan by February 21, 2008.

The order is available on the right.