FOIA Advisor

Court opinions issued May 26, 2020

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

Citizens for Responsibility in Wash. v. DOJ (D.D.C) -- ruling that: (1) Office of Information Policy performed adequate search for records concerning a 2017 meeting with reporters to share private text messages sent during 2016 presidential campaign by two former FBI investigators on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team; and (2) OIP and Office of Inspector General properly withheld as “non-responsive” individual emails and texts from whole threads because conversations veered into unrelated topics, rejecting plaintiff’s argument that FOIA defines a “record” by the manner in which it is maintained by the agency.

Glawson v. EOUSA (D.D.C.) -- determining that EOUSA performed reasonable search for certain grand jury records pertaining to plaintiff’s criminal prosecution in 2008.

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