Touarsi v. United States Department of Justice

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Exemption 7(E) was properly applied to withhold “results from various electronic databases” because “revealing the manner in which they are searched would enable individuals to circumvent identification”
• affirming the DOJ’s assertion of “the attorney-client privilege to withhold legal advice from FBI attorneys to government agents and employees concerning investigation strategies and a potential prosecution”
• privilege applied when the agency withheld “legal advice from FBI attorneys to government agents and employees concern- ing investigation strategies and a potential prosecution” without providing more details
• “It is settled law . . . that an agency need not segregate and disclose ‘disjointed words, phrases, or even sentences which taken separately or together have minimal or no informational content.’” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).