Wood v. Dollar Rent-A-Car Systems Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that factual information, to the extent that it does not reveal the government’s decision-making process, is beyond the scope of the privilege
• stating that “subjective documents which reflect the personal opinions of the writer rather than the policy of the agency” are pre-deci-sional (internal quotation marks omitted)
• but, reversing the court’s ruling only as to twenty-six folders, wherein the Government claimed either attorney work product and/or deliberative process privilege
• “[F]actual information that itself reveals the deliberative process and cannot be severed from the deliberative context is protected.” (citation omitted)
• “[D]raft decisions, including factual material, should be protected by the deliberative process privilege.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).