Ctr. For Investigative Reporting v. DOL (N.D. Cal.) -- concluding that DOL improperly withheld EEO-1 reports pursuant to Exemption 4 after deciding—over the objections of six representative federal contractors—that: (1) the workforce demographic data contained within those reports did not qualify as “commercial”; (2) such data was not independently protected by the Trade Secrets Act; and (3) whether the data was “confidential” was a moot issue, as was the foreseeable harm test.
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