National Immigration Project of National Lawyers Guild v. United States Department of Homeland Security

OPINION AND ORDER

JED S. RAKOFF, District Judge.

The parties have each filed partial summary judgment motions with respect to certain (though not all) aspects of plaintiffs’ request under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552, for extensive records relating to a representation made in 2009 — in a brief submitted on behalf of the Government to the Supreme Court — that, “[b]y policy and practice, the government accords aliens who were removed pending judicial review but then prevailed before the courts effective relief by, inter alia, facilitating the aliens’ return to the…