Court Opinion

ID: 6945084
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 01:22:04.655849+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:07:52.227338
License: Public Domain

RYMER, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I write separately because I cannot agree with the majority’s suggestion in Part II that subjective, recommendatory, deliberative work-product is not exempt under Exemption 5 if the work-produet is generated in a process of routine agency self-evaluation. As that issue is not presented here — the Jahn report was commissioned to help Director Thomas respond to specific allegations of mismanagement in the Southwestern Region, not to assist Director Thomas in a routine review of Forest Service Policy — the discussion is at best “cautionary dictum,” see Majority Op. at 2589, that should not bind a subsequent court which squarely faces the issue.