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Mark Geraghty Wonders v. Office of the Army General Counsel
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, No. 24-5214 · judgment February 28, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate: the model weighted this down for a self-represented petitioner.
Question presented
Did the Agency violate the law by disregarding a judge’s order and release only one of two legal reviews to the Petitioner in a security clearance hearing? Did the Agency violate the law by misrepresenting the withheld legal review as a different Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") document, and completely redacting it, prior to submitting it to the Petitioner? Did the Agency violate the law by denying the Petitioner’s subsequent 2012 and 2014 FOIA requests for the withheld legal review based upon claims of attorney-client privilege and FOIA protection not codified into the regulation until 2016?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Mark Geraghty Wonders
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Case
Subject area
Privacy (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, October 5, 2026 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 05 2026Petition DENIED.
- Jul 29 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Jul 24 2026Waiver of right of respondent Department of the Army Office of the General Counsel to respond filed.
- Jul 24 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 27, 2026)