John J. Tigue, Jr., Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason & Silberberg, P.C. v. United States Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service

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• finding that the deliberative process privilege applied to a memorandum prepared for a task force charged with gathering information and assisting the agency in developing and reforming policy
• “The Supreme Court has counseled that these exceptions are to be interpreted narrowly in the face of the overriding legislative intention to make records public.”
• “[T]he privilege does not protect a document which is merely peripheral to actual policy formation; the record must bear on the formulation or exercise of policy-oriented judgment.”
• the “record must bear on the formulation or exercise of policy-oriented judgment”

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