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FOIA Update: Government Ordered to Produce Vaughn Index

For those of your following my FOIA case, Judge Zobel today ordered the State Department to produce a Vaughn Index within thirty days. This was not a great victory—although the government refused to assent to my motion when I filed it, the government didn’t oppose it.

So if all goes according to plan, on August 16 I should have a list of the records the government has in its possession, and the basis (if there is one) for the government’s decision to withhold them.

Ted Folkman

One response to “FOIA Update: Government Ordered to Produce Vaughn Index”

  1. There Will Be No Vaughn Index (For Now) | Letters Blogatory

    […] a Vaughn index, although the Department didn’t oppose my motion, and although the court ordered the Department to produce an index by August 16, the Department now says it cannot produce the […]

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