Michael Alan Crooker v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

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• holding agency cannot apply a “‘blanket exemption’ for ‘all records relating to an ongoing investigation’” (quoting Campbell v. U.S. Dep’t of Health and Human Servs., 682 F.2d 256, 259 (D.C. Cir. 1982))
• withholdings must be justified \category-of-document by category-of-document ... not ... file-by-file\
• affidavit stating only that “requested documents are contained in a criminal investigation file” is impermissibly general and does not justify withholding under Exemption 7(A)
• “Because generic determinations [of interference] are permitted, the government need not justify its withholdings document-by-document_”
• “Congress did not authorize [a] ‘blanket exemption’ for ‘all records relating to an ongoing investigation.’”

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