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Court opinions issued Aug. 6, 2020

Ctr. for Public Integrity v. DOD (D.D.C.) -- deferring ruling on government’s exemption claims and ordering government to submit for in camera review certain records pertaining to the “Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative” that were withheld under Exemption 5.

Abdulkader v. Trump (D.D.C) -- dismissing case because plaintiff sued wrong defendants and failed to show that any federal agency received proper FOIA request.

Whitey v. FBI (W.D. Wash.) -- ruling that FBI properly relied on Exemption 7(D) in refusing to confirm or deny existence of records indicating whether deceased individual was agency informant, and denying plaintiff’s request for discovery or in camera review.

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