Grand Central Partnership, Inc. v. Andrew Cuomo, as Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a motion to compel is entrusted to the sound discretion of the district court”
• holding that deliberative process privilege focuses on “documents reflecting advisory opinions, recommendations and deliberations comprising part of a process by which governmental decisions and policies are formulated” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• holding that the FOIA requires an agency to demonstrate that “the search was reasonably calculated to discover the requested documents, not whether it actually uncovered every document extant”
• holding that, in a FOIA case where “no witnesses were heard and no credibility findings were made,” “the district court was in no better position to evaluate the record than” the circuit court
• holding that emails “directly related to . . . three agency decisions” and containing “information [that] . . . formed an important, if not essential, in [an agency’s] consultative process” were predecisional and deliberative
• noting that “an agency’s search need not be perfect, but rather need only be reasonable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).