Louis
Louis v. U.S. Department of Labor
Opinion
Lead Opinion
*669 MEMORANDUM *
Plaintiff Jeffrey Louis appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment on his claims for disclosure of documents by the Department of Labor (“Department”) under the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a, and the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552 .
As the parties are familiar with the extensive factual and procedural background of this case, we need not recite it here in detail. We mention only that after oral argument, the Department moved to supplement the record with an updated, revised Vaughn index 2 that indicates that several of the previously-withheld documents have now been produced, but that the Department still is withholding thirty-five documents under FOIA’s Exemption 5. We granted the Department’s motion, and, in an attempt to put an expeditious end to this litigation, we ordered the Department to submit the withheld documents to the court for in camera inspection. After conducting a thorough review of the submitted documents, we conclude that each has been properly withheld as attorney-client privileged and/or attorney work-product. 5 U.S.C. § 552 (b)(5). We have also determined that there is no segregable, non-privileged…