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Howard Bloomgarden v. National Archives and Records Administration

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, No. 18-5347 · judgment March 13, 2020

Certiorari denied · October 13, 2020
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Where an Assistant United States Attorney was terminated for misconduct and has continued to cite his former government service in public letters critical of the current President and United State Attorney General, does Exemption 6 of Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(6) require disclosure of the final agency termination decision withheld below because such disclosure is not “a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy”?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Torrence Evans Strause Lewis
Law Offices of Torrence E. S. Lewis

For respondent
Jeffrey B. Wall
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 13 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Sep 16 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/9/2020.
  3. Sep 08 2020
    Waiver of right of respondent National Archives And Records Admnistration to respond filed.
  4. Aug 06 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 10, 2020)