A.B. v. DOJ (D.D.C.) -- ruling that DOJ properly relied on Exemption 5’s deliberative process privilege to withhold communications between the Attorney General’s office and the Office of Legal Counsel regarding her asylum case.

Mullane v. DOJ (D. Mass.) -- deciding that: (1) Executive Office for United States Attorneys and the Securities and Exchange Commission performed adequate searches for records pertaining to plaintiff, whose legal internships were terminated and rescinded by EOUSA and SEC, respectively, due to an incident with a federal judge; (2) EOUSA properly withheld records pursuant to Exemption 5’s attorney-client and attorney work-product privileges, and it properly withheld unsigned draft records pursuant to the deliberative process privilege; the agency improperly withheld email with University of Miami, however, and failed to adequately explain other deliberative process privilege claims; (3) both agencies properly redacted records pursuant to Exemption 6, which plaintiff did not dispute.

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