Federal Government Violated FOIA by Withholding Information From Injured Workers

A federal trial judge in Colorado has ruled that the government violated the Freedom of Information Act by failing to fully release information related to referee physicians and claimants involved in workers' compensation cases. Blake Brown, Dean Biggs, Jacqueline DeHerrera, Ruth Ann Head, Marlene Mason, Roxanne S. McFall, Richard Medlock and Bernadette Smith had all worked for the federal government, and they suspected that their employer was not randomly selecting the referee physicians for their workers’ compensation cases. The workers filed a Freedom of Informati...