Scope: Federal
Branch: Judicial
Severity: Green
Date occurred: August 18, 2025
The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued a six-page decision in Knight v. Office of Personnel Management, an appeal brought under the Freedom of Information Act. The Office of Personnel Management and the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration were appellees.
Constitutional basis: Ordinary appellate review of an agency's FOIA response under the statute's settled disclosure framework, a routinely exercised Article III function.