Council on American-Islamic Relations v. Federal Bureau of Investigation

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT FOLLOWING IN CAMERA REVIEW

This is an action filed under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552 , challenging Defendants’ decision to redact and withhold certain documents in response to Plaintiffs’ FOIA request. Following complete briefing and oral argument, the Court previously granted in part Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment. The Court found the scope of the agencies’ search for the responsive documents was adequate, and granted summary judgment on that issue. However, the Court reserved judgment on the agencies’ assertion of exemptions and ordered a limited in camera review of the disputed documents. [Doc. No. 39.]

Pursuant to the Court’s directions, Plaintiffs identified a representative sample of 100 pages of the 312 pages Defendants produced in redacted form. [Doc. No. 40.] Thereafter, Defendants produced to the Court for in camera review the unredacted version of those 100 pages as well as the 153 pages of documents with held in full. Following in camera review, the Court concludes the Defendants justifiably withheld the documents from production under the asserted FOIA exemptions. Therefore,…