A federal appeals court struck two major blows for transparency Friday in a Freedom of Information Act case involving records of misconduct allegations leveled at immigration judges.

A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the identities of immigration judges accused of misconduct could not be categorically deleted from records made public under the Freedom of Information Act. The court also ruled that when producing email chains and similar records under FOIA, agencies cannot redact information solely on the basis that it appears to be nonresponsive to the subject of a request.

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