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· 8/21/2008

Pacific Fisheries, Inc. v. United States

Citations

  • 539 F.3d 1143
  • 102 A.F.T.R.2d (RIA) 5838
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 17814
  • 2008 WL 3863868

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that a district court may rely on an agency declaration that is reasonably detailed and remanding for the district court to make specific findings relating to segregability for all documents
  • “The burden is on the agency to establish that all reasonably segregable portions of a 20 document have been segregated and disclosed.”
  • “Factual portions of documents covered by the deliberative process privilege must be segregated and disclosed unless they are ‘so interwoven with the deliberative material that [they are] not [segregable].’”
  • confirming FOIA Exemption 5 incorporates deliberative process 20 privilege

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Judges: Fletcher, Paez, Smith

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