Husch Blackwell LLP v. EPA (D.D.C.) -- ruling that: (1) EPA failed to perform adequate search for communications between agency and two organizations concerning the herbicide gyphosate; (2) EPA properly relied on the deliberative process privilege to withhold talking points prepared for congressional testimony or press inquiries; (3) EPA failed to describe with sufficient particularity how two withheld records qualified for protection under the attorney-client privilege; and (4) EPA properly invoked Exemption 6 to withhold employee’s email of a purely personal nature with an acquaintance of family member , including that individual’s email address.
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