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Court opinions issued Mar. 5, 2020

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

Okeayainneh v. DOJ (N.D. Tex.) -- finding that the Executive Office for United States Attorneys and the National Personnel Records Center conducted reasonable searches for records about government lawyers associated with plaintiff’s criminal case, and sanctioning plaintiff, a pro se prisoner, for filing frivolous complaint.

Elec. Privacy Info. Ctr. v. DOJ (D.D.C.) -- ordering in camera review of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report because, in court’s view, Attorney General Barr——and by extension DOJ—lacked credibility about this matter.

Lukas v. FCC (D.D.C.) -- in most relevant part, determining that FCC properly relied on Exemption 4 to redact company’s pricing strategy, negotiating positions, and sales history.

Rosenberg v. DOD (D.D.C.) -- on second renewed summary judgment, finding that: (1) DOD properly relied on Exemption 1 to withhold certain emails sent by Marine General John Kelly, except for information DOD publicly acknowledged; and (2) DOD’s justified its use of the deliberative process privilege and met the reasonable foreseeable harm requirement for most, but not all, disputed records.

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