(the court ruled that the defendant (USDA) must release to the plaintiff (a newspaper in Sioux Falls, SD), pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), records showing how much money individual retailers received from taxpayers each year through the $72 billion (in 2012) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (formerly known as “Food Stamps”); the plaintiff had requested the information in 2011 as it investigated allegations of growing SNAP fraud amongst smaller retailers; the USDA argued that the information was exempt from FOIA disclosure under 7 U.S.C. § 2018(c), which shielded from public disclosure “income and sales tax filing documents” submitted by retailers in their applications to apply for participation in SNAP; on appeal, the court found that the district court, in denying the plaintiff’s request, had misread the statute; a plain reading of the exemption statute, the court ruled, showed that it applied to information submitted by the retailer to the USDA, not information collected by the USDA from third-party payment processors).