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Court opinion issued August 21, 2019

Am. Civil Liberties Union v. DOD. (D. Mont.) -- determining that: (1) Army Corps of Engineers failed to perform adequate search for records concerning anticipated protests at Keystone XL pipeline and that if failed to justify withholdings pursuant to Exemptions 5 and 7(A); (2) Bureau of Land Management properly withheld information pursuant to attorney-client privilege, but failed to justify deliberative process privilege withholdings ; and (3) FBI properly refused to confirm or deny existence of records pursuant to Exemption 7(A).

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