Electronic Frontier Foundation v. United States Department of Justice

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “vague references” to “deliberations” in the course of agency negotiations “fail[ed] to identify a specific deliberative process to which the withheld [material] contributed
• concluding that the Department of Justice’s explanation that it withheld three documents discussing issues raised “on HLCG information sharing principles” was insufficient
• denying summary judgment without prejudice as to the documents insufficiently described in the index and “directing the agency to revise their Vaughn submissions, taking into account the deficiencies identified by the Court”
• rejecting in camera review and directing the agency to revise their Vaugh submissions
• directing agency to submit revised Vaughn submissions where initial submissions were inadequate
• “The Court finds this description inadequate because it fails to identify a specific deliberative process to which the withheld email messages contributed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).