First Circuit· 7/11/2018

Sindi v. El-Moslimany

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896 F.3d 1

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noting that the defendant bears the burden of providing evidence of 17 predominance-defeating consent to a TCPA claim
finding that an agency’s refusal to grant a request for 19 records in its control is a “withholding,” even if the agency knows the records 20 are otherwise available to or in the possession of the requester.
holding doctrine of consular nonreviewability is “precisely the 14 kind of limitation on judicial review . . . that forms an exception to the APA’s cause of 15 action and review provisions” (internal quotation, citation, and alteration omitted).
vacating injunction because use of same words held to be defamatory in one context could constitute protected speech in other, future contexts
allowing appeal where administrative action “ha[d] no bearing on its ultimate resolution of the merits.”
observing the challenges with “[a]n injunction that prevents in perpetuity the utterance of particular words and phrases after a defamation trial” because “[b]y its very nature, defamation is an inherently contextual tort”

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Judges: Barron, Selya, Stahl

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