John R. Mapother, Stephen E. Nevas v. Department of Justice

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• concluding that there was a reasonable likelihood that aliens “excluded from entry into the United States because of [their] alleged participation in Nazi persecutions or genocide” would challenge the government’s exclusion determination
• holding that deliberative process privilege protected document organizing facts relevant to decision to exclude foreign leader from United States
• holding that a factual portion of a document was not protected by the deliberative process privilege because it was “in substance an inventory, presented in chronological order”
• holding that a summary “assembled through an exercise of judgment in extracting pertinent material . . . for the benefit” of a decisionmaker’s exercise of discretion may be protected
• concluding that there was a reasonable likelihood that aliens “excluded from entry into the United States because of [their] alleged participation in Nazi persecutions or genocide” would challenge the government’s exclusion determination
• concluding that the factual information contained in the chronology section of a report was not properly withheld because it “reflect[ed] no point of view” because it was “organized strictly chronologically, not thematically”

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