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Court opinions issued Mar. 18, 2021

Powell v. IRS (D.D.C.) -- on renewed summary judgment, finding that IRS performed adequate supplemental search for records pertaining to plaintiff.

Legal Eagle, LLC v. Nat'l Sec. Council Records Access (D.D.C.) -- ruling that: (1) National Security Council and its components were not agencies subject to plaintiff’s FOIA request, which sought records related to prepublication review of John Bolton’s book, The Room Where It Happened; (2) multiple federal agencies properly denied plaintiff’s request for expedited processing because plaintiff failed to demonstrate why requested records were time sensitive.

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