Fox News Network, LLC v. United States Department of the Treasury

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• reiterating that drafts of final agency regulations, along with “any communications regarding their drafting and revision, [are] properly withheld under the deliberative process privilege”
• finding that a federal reserve bank functioned enough like Treasury’s own personnel during the relevant transactions to justify calling their communications intraagency
• finding that a federal reserve bank functioned enough like Treasury's own personnel during the relevant transactions to justify calling their communications intraagency
• finding drafts of Department of Treasury guidelines and “a proposed interim final rule” to be covered by the deliberative process privilege
• determining that a “Q&A” sheet to help agency staff answer press inquiries was “neither predecisional with respect to a substantive policy decision nor deliberative,” but rather “gave . . . staff members guidelines for responding to questions about a decision already made”
• “[T]here is no requirement that an agency use identical search terms in all of its offices.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).