TAYLOR v. STURGELL, on being virtually represented (RE: FOIA request appeals)

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Someone asked for airplane schematics from the FAA via an FOIA request, which was denied because of 'trade secret' issues.
Taylor pretty much asked for the same thing via a similar FOIA request, but FFA and/or Fairchild (creator of the airplane schematics) said this time that Taylor has been 'virtually represented'...that it was impossible to distinguish these two appeals, so the first man's appeal was appropriate to dismiss Taylor's.

Not getting into what the tenets of virtual representation truly are (and apparently the circuits do not at all agree on this), Taylor took this to the SCOTUS.

Court ruled unanimously that there was not sufficient connection between these two individuals and they each deserve their day in court, according to the merits of their cases.

I am certainly surprised a full court would accept that any person can bring upon appeals like this at will. Does that mean all I must do if I want to pound a Federal Agency in hopes that at least one of the times, my FOIA request is accepted and processed, that I just post on a message board what FOIA I'd like to denial-of-service attack the agency with, and so long as I do not collaborate with the other FOIAers (who will post their results on the same message board, hopefully), that we may appeal all day long?

Consider that you initially read that Taylor and the first guy were strangers, but find later they collaborated on restoring a plane even if they didn't collaborate on the FOIA requests (although I also see mentioned they shared discovery materials.)

This seems like a good thing, anyway...here is a summary and the opinion. You may be able to argue that the ability to flood appeals will prevent deserving appeals from being reach timely (in the future).
http://www.scotuswiki.com/index.php?...or_v._Sturgell
http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/wp-cont.../06/07-371.pdf