Department of the Interior v. Klamath Water Users Protective Ass'n

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• holding that the exhaustion requirement of the PLRA applies to grievance procedures “regardless of the relief offered through administrative procedures”
• holding that “[t]o qualify [for Exemption 5’s protection], a document[’s] . . . source must be a Government agency”
• holding that the determination that records are not inter- or intra-agency 'rules out any application of Exemption 5'
• holding that the privilege encompasses “documents reflecting advisory opinions, recommendations, and deliberations that are part of a process by which governmental decisions and policies are formulated”
• holding that “deliberative process covers documents reflecting advisory opinions, recommendations and deliberations comprising part of a process by which governmental decisions and policies are formulated” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• noting that deliberative process covers \documents ... comprising part of a process by which governmental decisions and policies are formulated\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).