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inlawrev-18392	Rotenberg, Marc; McCall, Ginger; Horwitz, Julia	The Open Government Clinic: Teaching the Basics of Lawyering	2015	37	.pdf	application/pdf	17019	877	53	Requesters in the early days quickly found that the law did not work in practice.13 Agencies were slow to respond.14 There were few incentives for compliance.15 Agencies interpreted exemptions broadly.16 There was little judicial oversight.17 The 1974 amendments to the FOIA sought to remedy these problems.18 New provisions limited the fees that agencies could charge requesters, imposed deadlines by which FOIA requests must be processed, created procedures for the expedited processing of requests, allowed requesters to obtain attorneys’ fees and costs when they had “substantially prevailed,”19 and imposed sanctions against agency officials for arbitrary and capricious withholding of materials.20 When FOIA requesters today pursue FOIA requests, they are typically relying on the provisions added in the 1974 amendments.21 Since the 1974 amendments, there have been further changes to the law, typically with the goal of removing obstacles for requesters.22	cache/inlawrev-18392.pdf	txt/inlawrev-18392.txt