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Court opinions issued Aug. 13, 2020

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

James Madison Proj. v. Dep’t of the Treasury (D.D.C.) -- ruling that Office of the Comptroller of the Currency properly relied on Exemption 8 to withhold its final conclusions of its examinations of forty banks with respect to their sales practices.

Arab Am. Inst. v. OMB (D.D.C.) -- concluding after in camera review of disputed documents that OMB properly relied on Exemption 5’s deliberative process privilege to withhold draft recommendations and proposals concerning use of “Middle Eastern and North African” as race category in 2020 Census.

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