FOIA Advisor

Court opinions issued Dec. 8, 2020

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

Sierra Club v. EPA (N.D. Cal.) -- declining to order plaintiff to destroy records that EPA alleged were protected by Exemption 6 and erroneously released in response to plaintiff’s FOIA request

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Open Soc'y Justice Initiative v. CIA (S.D.N.Y.) -- ruling that Office of the Director of National Intelligence was required to produce a Vaughn Index concerning a tape of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, and that the CIA was required to produce a Vaughn Index for the agency’s report on the killing, because the government officially acknowledged existence of both records.

Summaries of all published opinions issued since April 2015 are available here.