Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury

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• concluding that 6 memoranda were properly redacted under deliberative process privilege where they “reflect[ed] the authors’ deliberative process in selecting factual material to be disclosed in the memoranda”
• explaining that the deliberative process privilege is intended to protect an agency’s decision-making processes
• finding many documents relating to the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program, and related agency investments, protected from disclosure by, among other things, Exemption 8
• upholding Treasury Department’s withholding, under Exemption 8, of “information [the FDIC] relayed to the [Treasury] through its monitoring of the condition of the financial institutions it regulates”
• “California’s fee shifting and private attorney general statutes 20 incentivize counsel to take cases on behalf of plaintiffs who could not otherwise afford to 21 vindicate their rights through litigation.”
• finding meeting minutes properly withheld under Exemption 5

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