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Court opinions issued Sept. 23, 2020

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

Boundaoui v. FBI (N.D. Ill.) -- denying plaintiff’s motions to find FBI in contempt for violating court’s previous orders, but instructing FBI to increase its rate of document production to 1000 pages per month and to search an electronic surveillance database in response to plaintiff’s request for records pertaining to government surveillance of Muslim Americans in Chicago area in the 1990s

James Madison Proj. v. CIA (D.D.C.) -- ruling that CIA properly relied on Exemption 1 to withhold records regarding agreements with President Bush and two corporations, but that agency’s declarations were too conclusory to permit evaluation of whether agency properly invoked Exemptions 6 and 7(C), or whether the agency has disclosed all reasonably segregable materials.

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