Protect the Public’s Trust v. Nat’l Labor Relations Bd. (D.D.C.) — in a case involving the disclosure of an ethics memo concerning potential recusal of NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox from decision-making on the Board’s February 26, 2020 “Joint Employer” rule, granting in part the requester’s motion for summary judgment; holding the agency failed to “sufficiently establish[] that” portions of the memo are protected by Exemption 5 and the attorney work-product privilege, but ordering in camera review before any final disclosure determination; noting the disputed question of whether the ethics memo was created in anticipation of future litigation, rather than in response to a request for ethics advice, and explaining the agency’s supporting declarations did not consider “how the redacted portions” would have differed if they “merely sought recusal guidance,” contrary to the government’s position; recognizing, for example, that NLRB members have an “independent ethical obligation to seek . . . [recusal] guidance independent of any anticipated litigation, and nothing in the unredacted portion of the . . . Memo appears to reference litigation strategies or defenses.”
Ferrera Parra v. Judicial Conference of the United States (D.D.C.) — dismissing, in relevant part, a pro se complaint that “approaches stating a FOIA claim” because “it is unmanageable to discern the necessary supporting facts and details relating thereto, particularly because they are deeply conflated with plaintiff’s myriad other grievances.”
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