Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Department of Justice

How courts have described this case

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• holding that public interest was served by timely public disclosure of records related to warrantless surveillance program, given public and media attention
• ruling that the plaintiff had demonstrated a risk of irreparable injury in a case seeking expedited processing during a national debate about the government’s wireless surveillance program
• finding that plaintiff would be irreparably harmed because it would be “precluded, absent a preliminary injunction, from obtaining in a timely fashion information vital to the current and ongoing debate surrounding the legality of the Administration’s warrantless surveillance program”
• directing production of all responsive records within 20 days, and compilation of a Vaughn index within 30 days
• finding an adequate showing of irreparable harm to support a preliminary injunction
• “Given this concession, the court finds it hard to accept DOJ’s current argument that disclosure is not urgent and that further delay will not harm EPIC.”

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