Source: https://www.foiaadvisor.com/?offset=1554384586268
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 04:41:43+00:00

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Hohman v. IRS (6th Cir.) (unpublished)-- concluding that appellant offered no compelling reason for failing to appeal magistrate judge’s report and recommendation to district court, and thus affirming district court’s decision that government properly relied on Exemptions 6 and 7(C) to withhold records from Treasury Inspector General of Tax Administration concerning agency misconduct.
Elgabrowny v. CIA (D.D.C.) -- finding that: (1)(a) FBI performed reasonable search for handwritten notes pertaining to interview of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef; (b) Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys failed to sufficiently describe its search for records pertaining to plaintiff’s criminal case; (c) CIA conducted adequate search in response to plaintiff’s request for a court-filed exhibit, but failed to even respond to plaintiff’s second request; and (2) CIA properly withheld records pursuant to Exemption 3 in conjunction with National Security Act of 1974.
The Department of Justice’s Office of Information Policy has posted additional agency FOIA reports for fiscal year 2018. See OIP’s web page here. Cabinet agencies whose reports are still outstanding include Commerce, HHS, State, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs.
Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Julian Castro on Monday called on Congress not to shield itself from large swathes of the Freedom of Information Act.
Castro, the former Obama administration housing secretary and mayor of San Antonio, Texas, made the comments at the We the People Membership Summit, an event held in Washington, D.C., for liberal activists to discuss electoral and economic reforms with eight White House contenders.
"We have to make Congress subject to the Freedom of Information Act,” he said. “We need to shine a light on what happens in Congress."
Posted here. Goes into effect May 1, 2019.
Mo. Coal. for Env't v. U.S. Army Corps of Eng'rs (D.D.C.) -- declaring that agency employed unlawful policy and practice of withholding Clean Water Act permit records pursuant to Exemption 5, but declining to issue injunction requested by plaintiff.
Seife v. FDA (S.D.N.Y.) -- reserving judgment on most Exemption 4 withholdings pending Supreme Court’s decision in Food Market Inst. v. Argus Leader, but ordering agency to release information already in public domain.
Ctr. for Biological Diversity v. EPA (D.D.C.) -- determining that EPA performed reasonable search for records pertaining to its assessment of a new pesticide and that it properly withheld records pursuant to attorney-client and deliberative process privileges, except with respect to certain factual information contained in PowerPoint slides.
Ctr. for Biological Diversity v. EPA (D.D.C.) -- ruling that EPA properly relied on deliberative process privilege to withhold records pertaining to agency’s revisions to water quality criteria for the heavy metal cadmium. In reaching its decision, the court found that EPA’s consultations with its outside contractor did not undermine agency’s Exemption 5 withholdings and that factual material was protected from disclosure because it was deliberatively culled from larger body of information.

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