Perez v. ICE (S.D.N.Y) -- adopting in full magistrate judge’s report and recommendation that: (1) plaintiff was bound by agreement with government that was “so-ordered” by magistrate to narrow scope of litigation; (2) agency properly relied on Exemption 6 to withhold in full two witness statements regarding investigation into plaintiff’s allegations of unethical misconduct and mismanagement by agency employee; and (3) agency properly found that eight categories of collected records were not responsive to plaintiff’s request.
Ramcharan v. DEA (D.D.C.) -- granting government’s unopposed summary judgment motion concerning plaintiff’s request for records associated with his criminal trial, noting that plaintiff had conceded sufficiency of DEA’s search and that DEA had sufficiently explained its withholdings under Exemptions 5, 6, 7(C), (7)(D), 7(E), and 7(F).
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