From AllGov:
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has been ordered by a federal appeals panel to stop misapplying the 20-day rule involving Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.Under the FOIA statute, federal agencies are required to respond within 20 days of receipt of a government records request, and notify the requester that it will review pertinent documents and reveal what they will and will not hand over and why.The FEC, however, used a different interpretation of the 20-day rule after the nonprofit watchdog CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) filed an FOIA request for correspondence, calendars, agendas and schedules of commissioners.