Betty Martin v. Office of Special Counsel, Merit Systems Protection Board

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• concluding that, because witness statements and attorney interview notes were privileged and not routinely discoverable, they were exempt from disclosure under FOIA
• “allowing] FOIA to be used as a supplement to civil discovery ... undercuts] the exemption’s apparent function ... [and] it also runs afoul of the decisions of the Supreme Court”
• stating Government must claim valid exemption under both Acts to withhold material
• to withhold documents from a FOIA/PA request, an agency must show that the documents are exempt from disclosure under each Act
• “[T]he needs of a particular plaintiff are not relevant to the exemption’s applicability.”
• work-product privilege does not distinguish between factual and deliberative material; both are protected

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