In the Matter of Talib W. Abdur-Rashid, Appellant,v.New York City Police Department, et al., Respondents.--------------------------------In the Matter of Samir Hashmi, Appellant, v. New York City Police Department, et al., Respondents.
Holding that an "official acknowledgment waiver relates only to the existence or nonexistence of the records," and remanding "to the district court where the CIA must either disclose any officially acknowledged records or establish both that their contents are exempt from disclosure and that such exemption has not also been waived"
Holding that the CIA did not waive the applicability of Exemption 1 to all classified information relating to a subject by voluntarily releasing some formerly classified information about that subject
Finding that the plain language of the statute authorizing a trial order of dismissal "manifests the Legislature's intention only to grant the court the power to rule on insufficiency, not the power to terminate the proceedings by default"
Holding the "near-blanket" FOIA exemption to protect sources and methods "authorizes the CIA's refusal to confirm or deny the existence of an employment relationship between itself and [an individual]."
Finding that when acknowledging the existence of documents would confirm an investigation into an individual, such confirmation is exactly the kind of privacy interest Exemption 7(C) is designed to protect
5 U.S.C. § 552 Cited 12,171 times 556 Legal Analyses
Holding that the Court's entering of a “Stipulation and Order” approving the parties' terms of dismissal did not amount to a “court-ordered consent decree” that would render the plaintiff the prevailing party