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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