Long v. Office of Personnel Management

DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge:

In response to plaintiffs’ Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request for all records in the central database of defendant Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”), OPM withheld from disclosure the names and duty-station information of over 800,000 federal employees. In a pair of orders, the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Norman A. Mordue, J.) granted in part and denied in part each side’s motion for summary judgment resolving the applicability of FOIA’s personal privacy exemption: Exemption 6, 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(6). The district…