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Court opinions issued Dec. 17, 2021

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

Niskanen Ctr. v. FERC (D.C. Cir.) -- affirming district court’s decision that agency properly invoked Exemption 6 to withhold the full names and addresses of property owners along the route of a proposed pipeline and that only the property owners’ initials and street names could be released.

Pub. Emps. for Envtl. Responsibility v. DHS (D.D.C.) -- finding that DHS properly relied on Exemption 5’s deliberative process privilege to withhold records pertaining to Federal Emergency Management Agency’s 2015 Strategic National Risk Assessment and that the agency met its statutory burden to show foreseeable harm.

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