Court opinion issued Sept. 14, 2020
Nat'l Day Laborer Org. Network v. ICE (S.D.N.Y.) -- finding that: (1) with the exception of one record, ICE improperly relied on attorney-client and attorney work-product privileges to withhold records concerning DHS’s “Priority Enforcement Program”; (2) ICE did not justify its withholding of memoranda under deliberative process privilege and DHS neglected to explain how disclosure of deliberative memoranda would reasonably cause harm; (3) government properly withheld some but not all records categorized as talking points, emails, and draft documents.
Houser v. HHS (D D.C.) -- ruling that HHS performed reasonable search for records pertaining to plaintiff'-prisoner’s former nursing homes and that agency properly withheld third-party records pursuant to Exemption 6.
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