Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation v. United States Army Corps of Engineers

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “purely factual material” may be withheld from disclosure under Exemption 5 if that material would expose the deliberative process of an agency
• “Boilerplate or conclusory affidavits, standing alone, are insufficient to show that no genuine issue of fact exists as to the applicability of a FOIA exemption.”
• “Boilerplate or conclusory affidavits, standing alone, are insufficient to show that no genuine issue of fact exists as to the applicability of a FOIA exemption.”
• “Such an index allows both the district court and the requesting party to evaluate the decision to withhold records and ensure compliance with FOIA.”
• noting exemptions are “narrowly construed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).