FOIA Advisor

Court opinions issued Mar. 26, 2021

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

Stahl v. DOJ E.D.N.Y.) -- finding that BOP properly relied on Exemptions 7(C) and 7(F) to withhold certain segments of video that identified employees involved in force-feeding inmate, but rejecting agency’s use of Exemption 7(E) and rejecting agency’s argument that it could not edit video to segregate and release non-exempt portions.

Protect Democracy Proj. v. DOJ (D.D.C.) -- ordering in camera review of memo concerning a 2020 airstrike against an Iranian general to determine whether any portion of memo was officially disclosed by the government.

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