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Court opinions issued Dec. 8, 2021

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

AquAlliance v. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (D.D.C.) -- ruling that agency performed adequate search for summaries of certain 2020 water transfers; rejecting plaintiff’s argument that agency was also required to search for underlying data, because plaintiff expressly limited its request to summaries.

W. Watersheds Project v. Nat'l Park Serv. (D. Idaho) -- granting government’s motion to change venue to Utah notwithstanding plaintiff’s principal place of business in Idaho, because case primarily involves plaintiff’s FOIA requests for documents located in Utah and how agency employees in Utah responded to those requests.

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