Knight First Amendment Inst at Columbia Univ. v. USCIS (2nd Cir.) -- reversing district court’s decision in case related to vetting immigrants entering the country and ruling, in most relevant part, that: (1) Department of State properly withheld portions of its Foreign Affairs Manual pursuant to Exemption 7(E); and (2) USCIS properly withheld terrorism-related questions pursuant to Exemption 7(E), rejecting argument that law enforcement techniques or procedures must be “special or technical” to be protected; further finding that requester did not carry its burden to show that the questions at issue were ”publicly available.”
Summaries of all published opinions issued since April 2015 are available here.