Collier v. Kilcrease

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• noting that the plaintiff did not allege bad faith or improper behavior necessary to 11 show that deliberative process materials were necessary to complete the record
• In other words, the record must include all materials that were “directly or indirectly considered by the agency decisionmakers”
• “A complete administrative record is the predicate to meaningful and effective judicial review of agency action, and it is that complete record that is subject to supplementation[.]”
• “It is well settled that the ‘primary focus’ of the court’s review of agency decision making ‘should be the materials that were before the agency when it made its final decision.’”
• “[A]n agency may not exclude information merely on the grounds that it did not rely upon the excluded information when reaching a final decision when there was evidence that the information was, in fact, reviewed.”
• “The court’s review function is undermined when an agency assembles a record that consists solely of materials that insulate portions of its decision from scrutiny or that it deems relevant to specific allegations raised by a protestor.”

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