Legal Opinion
Margaret Carter and Susan Castillo v. United States Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. 20230
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 8, 2002No. 02-35161PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GOODWIN, Circuit Judge.
The Department of Commerce (“DOC”) appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment ordering it to disclose statistically adjusted data generated as part of Census 2000 in response to plaintiffs’ Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request. DOC challenges the district court’s finding that the adjusted data are neither predecisional nor deliberative as required to permit nondisclosure under the “deliberative process” privilege in Exemption 5 to FOIA. We affirm.
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
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