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Court opinions issued Jan. 28, 2021

Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Serv. v. ICE (W.D. Tex.) -- awarding plaintiff more than $52,000 in attorney fees and costs after considering, among other things, that agency “failed to establish even a colorable basis . . . to support the adequacy of its search” and “gave no reasonable basis” for its Exemption 5 withholdings.

Stylianos v. USCIS (D. Mass.) -- ruling that agency properly invoked Exemption 6 to withhold plaintiff’s marriage certificate maintained in his estranged wife’s A-file, but chiding the parties for not considering alternative resolutions.

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