Randy Quarles v. Department of the Navy

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• holding that the Navy had properly withheld cost estimates under Exemption 5 because they are “derive[d] from a complex set of judgments—projecting needs, studying prior endeavors and assessing possible suppliers.”
• noting that courts hold exempt from disclosure factual material such as factual summaries by decisionmakers or factual material about the inner workings of the deliberative process itself
• noting that courts hold exempt from disclosure factual material such as factual summaries by decisionmakers or factual material about the inner workings of the deliberative process itself
• distinguishing cases holding appraisals of property nonexempt, relying in part on the ground that “they seem to involve fewer judgment calls than estimates of what construction will cost”
• differentiating the cost estimates used by the Navy to predict the expense of building new naval bases with property appraisals because \[the appraisals] seem to involve fewer judgment calls than estimates of what construction will cost\
• The Navy had produced a redacted version which included only the “truly factual information” and omitted all analysis, conclusions and cost estimates

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).