Jordan v. United States Department of Justice

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• holding that an appellate court may affirm on an alternate ground \provided that the alternate ground is within our power to formulate and the opposing party has had a fair chance to address it\
• finding that psychological reports fell within (j)(2)(C) because they were ‘identifiable’ to the prisoner and were compiled during his incarceration
• finding that a complete list of staff names and titles for all staff at prison was exempt under FOIA
• recognizing two approaches to interpreting Exemption 7’s requirement that withheld information be “compiled for law enforcement purposes,” each depending on nature of involved agency’s law enforcement authority
• “The per se rule [also] permits agencies whose primary function is not law enforcement to rely on [the exemption].”
• “[W]e may affirm on any basis supported by the record, [including] . . . arguments not reached by the district court or even presented to us on appeal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).