Sierra Club v. United States Department of Interior

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• finding that an onerous request constituted “unusual circumstances” relieving the agency of normal timeliness constraints
• stating that \[a] memo making recommendations or presenting options reflects the essence of internal deliberations that Exemption 5 was designed to protect\ (citation omitted)
• finding that “talking points” constituted “[a] memo making recommendations or presenting options [that] reflect[ed] the essence of internal deliberations that Exemption 5 was designed to protect.”
• finding that a similar \talking points\ document constituted \[a] memo making recommendations or presenting options [that] reflect[ed] the essence of internal deliberations that Exemption 5 was designed to protect.\
• holding that such an approach is “simplistic”
• finding draft talking points protected by Deliberative Process Privilege because they were “predecisional to the actual communication of [the] information and issues”

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