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Court opinions issued Mar. 24, 2021

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

White v. FBI (7th Cir.) (nonprecedential opinion) -- concluding that it had jurisdiction to consider plaintiff’s interlocutory appeal and affirming district court’s decision to deny plaintiff request for the immediate processing of 55,000 pages of records instead of FBI’s pace of 500 pages per month.

Flete-Barcia v. USMS (D.D.C.) -- on renewed summary judgment, finding that: (1) agency’s supplemental search for records about plaintiff was adequate in most respects, but agency’s declaration indicated that it might have used incorrect spelling of plaintiff’s name; (2) agency properly withheld records pursuant to Exemptions 7(C) and 7(E).

Allen v. BOP (D.D.C.) -- on sixth renewed summary judgment (which plaintiff did not oppose), ruling that BOP properly relied on Exemption 7(C) to withhold identification information used by employees to log into agency’s network.

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