ANTONIO LEE ROSS v. STATE OF FLORIDA

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the “head of the appropriate regional division . . . is of sufficient rank” to assert the deliberative process privilege
• stating that an “unsafe or unsound practice” is one that poses a “reasonably foreseeable undue risk to the institution” (quotations omitted)
• noting that “it has long been settled that federal magistrates are ‘inferior Officers’ under Article II”
• noting that “it has long been settled that federal magis- trates are ‘inferior Officers’ under Article II”
• reasoning that it “would be counterproductive to read ‘head of the department’ in the narrowest possible way”
• concluding head of regional division had “sufficient rank” to assert law enforcement privilege and declining to require that agency head 7 directly assert the privilege

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