Sept. 3, 2021

Jordan v. DOJ (D.D.C.) -- ruling, in most relevant part, that: (1) EOUSA performed adequate search for records concerning plaintiff’s prior FOIA litigation with the Department of Labor; (2) collateral estoppel barred plaintiff from re-litigating government’s use of Exemption 4 to withhold certain email; (3) EOUSA properly withheld records pursuant to Exemption 5’s work-product and deliberative process privileges, as well as Exemption 6, except for certain contact information that was publicly available.

Sept. 2, 2021

Long v. ICE (D.D.C.) -- finding that ICE was not required to produce various fields of data pertaining to immigration removals because such production would require the creation of new records, not merely sorting a preexisting database of information.

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