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Court opinions issued July 18, 2018

Wild Horse Freedom Fed'n v. U.S. Dep't of the Interior (D.D.C.) -- ruling that: (1) Bureau of Land Management failed to perform adequate search for various records pertaining to Wild Horse and Burro Program; (2)  agency properly withheld certain (but not all) information from one exhibit pursuant to Exemption 5, and that redactions on second exhibit could not be reviewed until agency provided court with clean copy.

W. Values Project v. U.S. Dep't of Justice (D.D.C.) -- holding that government improperly issued Glomar response based on Exemption 5 for request pertaining to Office of Legal Counsel opinions, and that it performed reasonable search for remaining requested records.

Summaries of all published opinions issued since April 2015 available here