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Court opinions issued Nov. 30, 2022

Immerso v. DOL (2nd Cir.) (unpublished) -- affirming district court’s “well-reasoned” decision that plaintiff was not entitled to discovery and concluding that district court did not abuse its discretion by imposing filing sanctions on plaintiff and her attorney.

Berk v. Exec. Office of United States Attorneys (5th Cir.) (unpublished) -- affirming district court’s decision that multiple agencies performed reasonable searches for records concerning plaintiff’s prosecution and properly withheld certain records; further affirming district court’s ruling that plaintiff was not entitled to appointment of counsel.

Farahi v. FBI (D.D.C.) --ruling that: (1) FBI properly relied on Exemption 7(A) to withhold records pertaining to plaintiff’s immigration removal proceedings, but agency’s 2019 ex parte declaration was now outdated on the issue of whether enforcement proceedings remained pending or reasonably anticipated; and (2) for reasons that could not be stated on public record, FBI needed to provide additional information to the court in order to satisfy statute’s segregability requirements.

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