But taken together, the requests formed a pattern — one that, in retrospect, traced a regulatory trail that would later reveal unexpectedly high pacemaker battery failure rates, jeopardizing the lives ...

Several leading news organizations are investigating high-flying prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket, based on Freedom of Information Act requests submitted to the Commodity and Futures Trading ...

In December, a retired California Highway Patrol officer named Wilma Stone filed an unusual Freedom of Information Act request with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Stone asked the agency for ...

Litigation involving the world’s three largest memory-chip manufacturers — Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology — has become a recurring feature of the federal court system in the ...

Federal courts are increasingly grappling with the legal status of prediction markets, as exchanges offering contracts on political, economic, and social events test the boundaries of federal ...

When most people think about the Freedom of Information Act, they imagine journalists prying loose hidden facts or activists holding officials accountable. But FOIA is also a workhorse tool for ...

FOIAengine: Was the FTC Involved in Operation “Arctic Frost”? The conservative Heritage Foundation continues to flood federal agencies with Freedom of Information Act requests seeking detailed records ...

Michael Burry, the reclusive contrarian who foresaw the 2007 subprime collapse and became the reluctant hero of The Big Short, has walked away from professional money management for the second — and ...

Wall Street got unusually curious last month about the safety records at one pharmaceutical factory. Five investment firms were among those filing Freedom of Information Act requests seeking Food and ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission, which signed a staffing contract potentially worth $2.5 billion with a Texas-based Alaska Native corporation, appears to have relied heavily on the outside ...

Leading makers of GLP-1 (Glucagon-Like Peptide-1) weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound are facing off against domestic compounding pharmacies that import foreign ingredients and make cheaper, ...

At the Securities and Exchange Commission, the inbox has been filling up with hundreds of near-identical Freedom of Information Act requests about a little-known company called Meta Materials, Inc., ...