Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Department of Justice

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that report that reflects choice, weighing and analysis of facts is not protected by deliberative process privilege
• distinguishing Montrose Chemical on grounds that it involved “a complex decision in an adjudicatory proceeding” as opposed to an investigative report “prepared only to inform”
• distinguishing Montrose because there the “summaries were prepared for the sole purpose of assisting the Administrator”
• noting report “prepared only to inform the Attorney General of facts which he in turn would make available to members of Congress”
• distinguishing materials prepared to assist an agency in \mak[ing] a complex decision\ from materials \prepared only to inform\
• ordering disclosure of- DOJ task force factual report that had been ordered to inform the Attorney General, which he in turn would make available to Congress

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).