N.Y Times v. HHS (2nd Cir.) -- affirming district court’s decision that Indian Health Service improperly withheld a third-party’s report evaluating agency’s management and administration as a “medical quality assurance record” under 25 U.S.C. § 1675.
Kowal v. DOJ (D.D.C.) -- on renewed summary judgment, finding that FBI’s Vaughn indices were adequate and that FBI properly withheld records concerning plaintiff’s capital defendant client pursuant to Exemptions 3 in conjunction with 18 U.S.C. § 3510), 6, 7(C), 7(D), and 7(E).
Citizens For Responsibility & Ethics In Wash. v. DOJ (D.D.C.) -- concluding that Federal Bureau of Prisons properly withheld records concerning its procurement of drugs used in federal executions, but that it could not withhold records pursuant to Exemption 7(E) because the exemption does not cover punishment phase of law enforcement.
Perioperative Servs. & Logistics v. U.S. Dep't of Veterans Affairs (D.D.C.) -- holding that agency properly relied on Exemption 6 to withhold records identifying a third party who filed a complaint against plaintiff.
Wash. Post v. SIGAR (D.D.C.) -- on renewed summary judgment, determining that: (1) agency properly relied on Exemption 1 to withhold records of interviews concerning agency’s “Lessons Learned Program”; (2) agency properly used Exemption 7(D) to withhold records identifying individuals who spoke “off the record,” but it could not use the exemption for “on the record” interviews; (3) agency properly relied on Exemptions 6 and 7(C) to withhold identifying information of various interviewees and third parties named in interviews; (4) agency properly withheld information on intelligence methods pursuant to Exemption in conjunction with the National Security Act; and (5) agency failed to justify ifs withholdings under Exemption 5’s deliberative process privilege, and it justified some but not all of its withholdings under the presidential communications privilege.
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