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Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Commerce

MOTION for Summary Judgment

59 Cited authorities

  1. U.S. Dept. of Justice v. Reporters Committee

    489 U.S. 749 (1989)   Cited 1,918 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that disclosure of "[o]fficial information that sheds light on an agency's performance of its statutory duties falls squarely within [FOIA's] statutory purpose"

  2. Department of Interior v. Klamath Water Users Prot. A.

    532 U.S. 1 (2001)   Cited 1,008 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the determination that records are not inter- or intra-agency "rules out any application of Exemption 5"

  3. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.

    421 U.S. 132 (1975)   Cited 2,039 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding that FOIA does not compel agencies to write or create material to explain disclosed documents

  4. Dept. of Air Force v. Rose

    425 U.S. 352 (1976)   Cited 1,666 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that although "redaction cannot eliminate all risks of identifiability," it was a "familiar technique" and sufficient to protect the identities of Air Force Academy cadets described in summaries of disciplinary proceedings

  5. United States Department of Defense v. Federal Labor Relations Authority

    510 U.S. 487 (1994)   Cited 664 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that, although the requesting unions' interest in obtaining the home addresses of agency employees “might allow the unions to communicate more effectively with employees, ... it would not appreciably further the citizens' right to be informed about what their government is up to”

  6. Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink

    410 U.S. 73 (1973)   Cited 1,087 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the privilege does not protect "memoranda consisting only of compiled factual material or purely factual material contained in deliberative memoranda and severable from its context . . ."

  7. Oglesby v. U.S. Dept. of Army

    920 F.2d 57 (D.C. Cir. 1990)   Cited 1,543 times
    Holding that FOIA administrative exhaustion requirement is jurisdictional

  8. Larson v. Department of State

    565 F.3d 857 (D.C. Cir. 2009)   Cited 598 times
    Holding that information provided by CHS that could reveal the identity of intelligence source was properly withheld

  9. Valencia-Lucena v. United States Coast Guard

    180 F.3d 321 (D.C. Cir. 1999)   Cited 709 times
    Holding that a search was inadequate because the agency failed to search a database it identified as a likely place where the documents might be located

  10. Wolf v. C.I.A

    473 F.3d 370 (D.C. Cir. 2007)   Cited 514 times
    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"

  11. Rule 56 - Summary Judgment

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 56   Cited 328,503 times   158 Legal Analyses
    Holding a party may move for summary judgment on any part of any claim or defense in the lawsuit

  12. Section 552 - Public information; agency rules, opinions, orders, records, and proceedings

    5 U.S.C. § 552   Cited 12,164 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