Lawsuits spike in search of Clinton emails

More journalists, transparency advocates and individuals sued the State Department over unanswered open records requests in 2015 than any year in the past decade. Hillary Clinton’s emails played a role.

While the number of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits filed against the federal government overall rose only slightly between 2014 and 2015, the number of lawsuits filed against the State Department nearly doubled, according to data compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.