Newport Aeronautical Sales v. Department of the Air Force

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• holding that statute beginning with the phrase “notwithstanding any other provision of law” “readily qualifies as an Exemption 3 statute.”
• recognizing that, “even though a party may have obtained relief as to a specific request under the FOIA, this will not moot a claim that an agency policy or practice will impair the party’s lawful access to information in the future”
• explaining that challenge to agency policy allowed where policy \will impair the party's lawful access to information in the future\
• explaining that challenge to agency policy allowed where policy “will impair the party’s lawful access to information in the future”
• finding case in which documents already produced not moot given agency policy of “denying FOIA requests” to specific requester
• permitting policy and practice claim when requester alleged that Air Force had routine policy of unlawfully denying FOIA requests for certain types of data in order to force requester to obtain data through a more restrictive DOD process

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