Court opinion issued May 23, 2024
Cohodes v. DOJ (N.D. Cal.) -- following in camera review, finding that DOJ could not rely on Exemptions 6 and/or 7(C) to redact the following information originating from a dispute between plaintiff, a Wall Street short-seller, and biotech company MiMedx, specifically: (1) name of email author sent under a pseudonym to an attorney; (2) name and email address of attorney who forwarded email to FBI; (3) names of MiMedx witnesses interviewed by the government in 2018; and (4) anonymous email address from a person who sent an email to a witness offering to provide information about the plaintiff.
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