Voice of San Diego v. NCIS (S.D. Cal.) -- determining that: (1) Navy performed adequate search for records concerning its investigations into suicides of certain service members; and (2) government’s explanations for privacy withholdings in the Vaughn Index were too “boilerplate and conclusory” to permit the court to conduct required balancing test; noting that government’s terse descriptions nonetheless suggested that “substantial privacy interests” were at stake, and that court harbored doubt that plaintiff could show an overriding public interest in disclosure.
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