Bourque
Chase Bourque, et al. v. United States of America Department of State, et al.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 CHASE BOURQUE, et al., Case No. 24-cv-06994-EMC (LJC)
Plaintiffs,
ORDER RESOLVING JOINT LETTER
v. REGARDING QUERIES 8 AND
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Re: Dkt. No. 91 DEPARTMENT OF STATE, et al., 11 Defendants.
12 This case essentially challenges Defendants’ increase of an expedited passport application processing fee from $35 to $60 in 2002 and continued assessment of that fee through the present day. See Am. Compl. (ECF No. 46) ¶ 23. Plaintiffs contend that the fee is arbitrary and improperly exceeds Defendants’ costs. Id. ¶¶ 86–88, 97. The parties previously submitted a joint letter raising disputes regarding certain search queries that Plaintiffs asked Defendants to run in response to Plaintiffs’ first set of requests for production, which “sought documents explaining the basis of the $60” fee that Defendants charge for expedited passport processing. ECF No. 67 at 1. On September 25, 2025, the Court resolved some of their disputes…