The National Law Review

FOIA's Deliberative-Process Privilege and the ESA

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JD Supra

Supreme Court Protects Drafts Under Deliberative Process Privilege

Last week, in Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s first signed opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court expanded the deliberative process privilege under exception 5 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), limiting ...
SCOTUSblog

Court favors deliberative-process privilege protections over FOIA transparency goals

Notwithstanding the Freedom of Information Act’s primary goal of promoting transparency in government decision-making, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled by a 7-to-2 vote that the public policy of ...
JD Supra

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Holds That Documents Exchanged by Consultants With Local and State Agencies Do Not Fall Within the Deliberative Process Privilege

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s April 29, 2021, decision in a Right-to-Know Law (the “RTKL”) case has broad ramifications in matters where a state or local governmental agency has contracted with a ...
Courthouse News Service

Watchdog group asks Washington high court to reexamine public record exemptions

OLYMPIA, Wash. (CN) — A government watchdog group asked the Washington Supreme Court on Thursday to rethink an exemption to the state’s public records disclosure law after a state agency denied it ...