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Court opinions issued Dec. 3, 2020

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

Ctr. for Investigative Reporting v. DOJ (9th Cir.) -- in a 2-1 decision, reversing and remanding district court’s decision and holding that a rider to Consolidated Appropriations Acts did not qualify as an Exemption 3 statute; further ruling that ATF had not demonstrated that requested weapons information was incapable of being extracted from its Firearms Tracing System database.

Samuel v. U.S. Dep’t of State (D.S.C.) -- summarily adopting magistrate judge’s report and recommendation that agency properly refused to confirm or deny existence of “Cuba Condition” records.

Werth v. DOJ (D.D.C.) -- on renewed summary judgment, which plaintiff did not oppose, concluding that U.S. Marshals Service performed adequate search for records pertaining to plaintiff’s property and properly redacted names of law enforcement officials pursuant to Exemptions 6 and 7(C).

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