Recommendation 2020-6, Agency Litigation Webpages – offers agencies best practices for making their federal court filings and relevant court opinions available to the public on their websites, with particular emphasis on materials from litigation dealing with agency regulatory programs. It provides guidance on the types of litigation materials that will be of greatest interest to the public and on how agencies can disseminate the materials in a way that makes them easy to find.
Citation: Admin. Conf. of the U.S., Recommendation 2020-6, Agency Litigation Webpages, 86 Fed. Reg. 6624 (Jan. 22, 2021).
Federal agencies and their component units[1] participate in thousands of court cases every year. Most such cases result in “agency litigation materials,” which this Recommendation defines as including agencies’ publicly filed pleadings, briefs, and settlements, as well as court decisions, where such materials bear on agencies’ regulatory or enforcement activities.
Public access to agency litigation materials is desirable for...
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