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Court opinions issued July 15, 2020

Philips v. Dep’t of the Navy (D.D.C.) -- concluding that agency performed reasonable search for records pertaining to plaintiff’s murder trial and that it properly withheld records about third parties pursuant to Exemptions 6 and 7(C).

Greenlaw v. Scalia (N.D. Cal.) -- finding that Department of Labor’s properly relied on Exemptions 6 and 7(C) to withhold certain third-party information from documents she maintained on her work computer.

Moujtahid v. USCIS (W.D. Wash.) -- holding that agency properly relied on Exemption 6 to withhold records from A-files of third parties, as well as Exemption 7(C) to withhold names of individuals under investigation, notwithstanding asserted public interest that disclosure would assist in discovering potential plaintiffs in civil RICO action.

Madel v. DOJ (D. Minn.) — ruling that Drug Enforcement Administration’s declaration was “devoid of specificity” and “patently insufficient” to justify agency’s reliance on Exemption 4 to withhold records provided by Cardinal Health about distribution of oxycodone.

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