that he never received these records. Pl.’s Resp. Stmt. ¶ 2. On June 25, 1996, Plaintiff filed an action in this Court alleging that the DEA improperly withheld records in response to his FOIA request. See Willis v. FBI, No. 96-1455, Complaint (D.D.C. Jun. 25, 1996), Docket No. [1]. On August 6, 1997, Magistrate Judge Alan Kay issued a Report & Recommendation that recommended that the DEA’s Motion for Summary Judgment be granted. Id., Report & Recommendation at 2 (Aug. 6, 1997), Docket No. [76]. This Court adopted the Magistrate Judge’s Report and Recommendation on February 13, 1998, granted the DEA’s Motion for Summary Judgment, and dismissed Plaintiffs case in its entirety. Id., Docket No. [106]. On appeal, the D.C. Circuit affirmed. Willis v. FBI, 274 F.3d 531, 533 (D.C.Cir.2001) (<HOLDING>). C. Executive Office of United States
holding that the district court acted within its discretion when it denied plaintiffs request for counsel holding trial court acted within its discretion in excluding expert testimony recognizing in a case where the court sua sponte reduced the attorneys fee request that the district court has discretion to reduce the amount of the fee request and stating when  defense counsel fails to do so the district court should not reward the defendants by denying the plaintiffs counsel an opportunity to defend his claim against specific challenges whatever their source holding that trial court acted within its discretion in denying defendants request for firstoffender treatment when there was no indication that trial court refused to consider request or erroneously believed that such was not permitted holding the district court abused its discretion in denying the plaintiffs request for rehearing because the district court relied on an erroneous legal premise to do so