FOIA Advisor

Court opinions issued Jan. 9, 2020

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

S. Envtl. Law Ctr. v. Bernhardt (W.D. Va.) -- determining that plaintiff set forth sufficient allegations to establish standing to pursue claim that Department of the Interior unlawfully delays FOIA responses, in part, by employing polices and practices associated with an "Awareness Process Memorandum" issued by DOI on May 24, 2018, a "Deliberative Process Memorandum" issued to the Fish and Wildlife Service on September 6, 2018, and a "Foreseeable Harm Memorandum" issued by DOI on December 29, 2017.

Stevens v. U.S. Immigration & Customs Enf't. (N.D. Ill.) -- ruling that: (1) ICE failed to perform adequate search for correspondence pertaining to U.S. citizenship claims; (2) ICE failed to show that it properly invoked Exemptions 5, 6, and 7(C) to redact “statement of the case" and "facts" sections of U.S. citizenship claims memoranda.

Summaries of all published opinions issued since April 2015 are available here.