Mora v. U.S. Customs & Border Prot. (D.D.C.) -- granting defendants' motion for summary judgment and denying plaintiffs' motions for class certification and discovery in a case brought by immigration attorneys and individuals alleging that CBP maintained a policy or practice of failing to make timely FOIA responses; ruling that CBP's backlog resulted from "exceptional circumstances" rather than an unlawful policy of treating statutory deadlines as non-mandatory; rejecting plaintiffs' argument that the backlog surge between FY 2023 and FY 2024 demonstrated “mismanagement”; finding that agency declarations attesting to various remedial measures were entitled to a presumption of good faith that plaintiffs' “speculative” discovery requests failed to rebut; and declining to follow two decisions from the Northern District of California that applied the Ninth Circuit’s different policy-or-practice test.
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