Mobil Oil Corporation v. United States Environmental Protection Agency

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• holding that the application of the deliberative process privilege to a draft document does not hinge on whether the draft differs from the final version
• noting that “[t]he inquiry into whether a specific disclosure constitutes waiver is fact specific” and requires consideration of the circumstances of the prior disclosure
• draft document covered by deliberative-process privilege, because effect of disclosure “would be to expose what occurred in the deliberative process between the draft’s creation and the final document’s issuance”
• appears that appellate court, if not district court, reviewed the contested documents

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