Washington Research Project, Inc. v. Department of Health, Education and Welfare

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the deliberative process privilege covered documents reviewed by National Institute of Mental Health personnel in a grant application and approval process, applying their “personal perspective on the material being summarized”
• noting that Initial Review Groups were created by the National Institute of Mental Health, a division of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare
• noting that facts could be withheld because \the judgmental element arises through the necessity to select and emphasize certain facts at the expense of others\
• determining whether “initial review group” performing peer review on proposals for government grants was an “agency” for Freedom of Information Act purposes
• determining whether “initial review group” performing peer review on proposals for government grants was an “agency” for Freedom of Information Act purposes
• “[A]ny general definition [of an agency] can be of only limited utility to a court confronted with one of the myriad organizational arrangements for getting the business of government done.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).