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Court opinion issued May 7, 2020

Buzzfeed Inc. v. FBI (D.D.C.) -- ruling that FBI properly relied on Exemption 5’s presidential communications privilege to withhold its supplementary background investigation file of Brett Kavanaugh, and that the privilege was not waived when file was shared with Senate Judiciary Committee.

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