Goodrich Corp. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “[a]s a general matter, ‘drafts’ of documents are exempt from disclosure 13 under the deliberative process privilege” and collecting cases supporting this observation
• granting withholding of EPA model because “even if the data plugged into the model is itself purely factual, the selection and calibration of data is part of the deliberative process”
• finding a draft groundwater flow model exempt because “evolving iterations of the Model’s inputs and calibration . . . may not represent [the agency]’s ultimate opinions” related to the model (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[E]ven if the data plugged into the model is itself purely factual, the selection and calibration of data is part of the deliberative process to which Exemption 5 applies.”
• “[E]ven if the data plugged into the model is itself purely factual, the selection and calibration of data is part of the deliberative process to which Exemption 5 applies[.]”
• “[E]ven if the data plugged into the model is itself purely factual, the selection and calibration of data is part of the deliberative process to which Exemption 5 applies.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).