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· 3/30/2012

American Immigration Lawyers Association v. United States Department of Homeland Security

Citations

  • 852 F. Supp. 2d 66
  • 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 45146

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding that disclosure of fraud indicators “reasonably could lead to circumvention of laws or regulations,” as they could “provide a ‘roadmap’ or ‘guidance’ to those looking to circumvent the law, which would thwart future law enforcement efforts”
  • finding that disclosure of fraud indicators “reasonably could lead to circumvention of laws or regulations,” as they could “provide a ‘roadmap’ or ‘guidance’ to those looking to circumvent the law, which would thwart future law enforcement efforts”
  • involving questionnaire filled out by site inspectors to “documentf ] their personal observations” that was a “probing internal assessment sheet used to ferret out legitimacy of the H-1B” visa relationship, see id., 10-cv-01224, Dkt. 25, Ex. 5 at 105
  • Agency met their burden of demonstrating that the disclosure of fraud indicators reasonably could lead to circumvention of laws or regulations
  • disclosure of agency’s fraud indicators within visa review process “would provide a ‘roadmap’ or ‘guidance’ to those looking to circumvent the law”
  • upholding agency’s withholding pursuant to Exemption 7(E

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Judges: Judge Emmet G. Sullivan

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