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Court opinions issued July 15, 2021

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

Wash. Post v. SBA (D.D.C.) -- finding that: (1) SBA failed to show that interim loan status information was properly withheld under Exemption 4, in no small part because the agency declined to submit declarations from any loan recipients; and (2) SBA properly relied on Exemption 4 to withhold DUNS numbers associated with individual borrowers.

Open Soc’y Justice Initiative v. DOD (S.D.N.Y.) -- ruling that the CIA properly relied on Exemptions 1 and 3 in refusing to confirm or deny existence of records concerning five pandemic-related topics, but that it did not meet its burden of proof with respect to sixteen other pandemic-related topics.

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