A federal court in Washington, D.C. gave the Trump administration a win on Wednesday in a case over the abrupt closure of an office dedicated to processing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

In a 20-page memorandum opinion , U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly, who was appointed by President Donald Trump during his first term, denied a motion for a preliminary injunction requested by Citizens for Responsibility in Washington (CREW), a nonpartisan and nonprofit government watchdog group.

In early April , CREW sued the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as well as top officials at each agency, over the FOIA office closure. In late April, CREW asked for injunctive relief — in the form of forcing the agencies to assign “sufficie

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