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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR (the district where you have filed)
 
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YOUR NAME,

Plaintiff,

v.

AGENCY YOU ARE SUING,

Defendant.

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Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel Preparation of a Vaughn Index

Plaintiff (your name) moves this Court 
for an order requiring Defendant (name of agency) 
to provide within 30 days after service of the Complaint in this action, an 
itemized, indexed inventory of every agency record or portion thereof responsive 
to Plaintiff’s request which Defendant asserts to be exempt from disclosure, 
accompanied by a detailed justification statement covering each refusal to 
release records or portions thereof in accordance with the indexing requirements 
of Vaughn v. Rosen, 484 F.2d 820 (D.C. Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 
415 U.S. 977 (1974).

Respectfully submitted,


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Dated: (date)
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