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Court opinions issued May 19, 2020

Citizens United v. U.S Dep’t of State (D.D.C.) -- concluding that with the exception of relatively minor redactions on two documents, State Department justified its withholdings to Christopher Steele-related documents pursuant to Exemptions 1 and 3.

White v. DOJ (S.D. Ill.) -- determining that: (1) plaintiff failed to reasonably describe requests sent to FBI, ATF, and U.S. Marshals Service for records relating to white supremacist groups; (2) FBI performed adequate search for records concerning other white supremacist groups or was reasonably producing records at rate of 500 pages monthly; (3) FBI, ATF, and USMS properly refused to confirm or deny existence of records concerning third-party individuals; (4) USMS was processing or had already processed records concerning plaintiff despite initial delay and court would not retain jurisdiction over claim; and (5) BOP performed adequate searches for records concerning plaintiff and properly withheld records pursuant to Exemption 5, 6, 7(C), 7(E), and 7(F).

Hutchins v, EOUSA (D.D.C.) -- finding that EOUSA performed adequate search for grand jury records pertaining to plaintiff’s drug conspiracy conviction in 1996.

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