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Court opinion issued August 2, 2016

N.Y. Times Co. v. U.S. Dep't of the Treasury (S.D.N.Y.) -- ruling that the Office of Foreign Assets Control properly withheld a memoranda as predecisional and deliberative under Exemption 5, but that the agency failed to show that it conducted an adequate search for the "governing legal protocol" that plaintiff had actually requested.  

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