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Court opinions issued Sept. 20, 2021

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

Cincinnati Enquirer v. DOJ (S.D. Ohio) -- finding that DOJ properly relied on Exemption 7(C) to withhold in full records pertaining to criminal investigation of drug trafficking by third party.

Tobias v. U.S. Dep’t of the Interior (D.D.C.) -- determining that agency properly relied on Exemption 5’s deliberative process, attorney-client, commercial information, and attorney work-product privileges (the application of which plaintiff did not dispute), and that agency adequately demonstrated that foreseeable would result from disclosure of records related to activities of then-Secretary Zinke and other senior employees.

Waterman v. IRS (D.D.C.) -- On remand from D.C. Circuit to examine issue of segregability of documents concerning plaintiff, reaffirming that IRS properly relied on Exemptions 5 and 6 and expressly finding that all reasonably, segregable non-exempt records had been released.

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