Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. United States Department of Justice
Notes: Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Order by FightWithKash on Scribd
Summary:
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act seeking disclosure of the memorandum and related records. The Department sought to withhold nearly all of the memorandum based on the deliberative-process privilege, which protects records documenting an agency’s internal deliberations en route to a governmental decision. The district court rejected the Department’s reliance on the deliberative-process privilege and ordered the Department to disclose the memorandum in full.
