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FOIA News: Exemption 5 Case Makes SCOTUSblog's Petitions of the Week

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Petitions of the week

By Andrew Hamm, SCOTUSblog, Nov. 22, 2019

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club
19-547
Issues: Whether Exemption 5 of the Freedom of Information Act, by incorporating the deliberative process privilege, protects against compelled disclosure of a federal agency’s draft documents that were prepared as part of a formal interagency consultation process under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and that concerned a proposed agency action that was later modified in the consultation process.

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