The Wolk Law Firm v. NTSB (E.D. Pa.) -- determining that NTSB properly withheld certain records pertaining to aircraft accidents. including death scene photographs, autopsies, and medical case reviews, pursuant to Exemption 6 and Exemption 5’s deliberative process, attorney work-product, and attorney-client privileges.
Int’l Refugee Assistance Proj. v. USCIS (S.D.N.Y.) -- concluding that: (1) plaintiff’s lawsuit seeking access to refugee resettlement application was not moot, because: (a) disclosure of some records by non-party Department of State in response to plaintiff’s separate request did not settle whether USCIS conducted adequate search; (b) plaintiff adequately pleaded a policy-or-practice claim regarding USCIS’s alleged refusal to search a database for refugee resettlement documents; and (2) granting plaintiff’s partial summary judgment motion and finding that USCIS failed to search the relevant database for responsive agency records.
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