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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Liman finds in favor of the FAA in an action brought by the air traffic controller arising after the FAA withheld records under FOIA exemptions. The records were related to the FAA's decision to realign responsibility for the Newark sector airspace from the New York Terminal Radar Approach Control Facility to the Philadelphia Air Traffic Control Tower due to staffing shortfalls. The air traffic controller also requested records related to communications between the FAA and the NATCA labor union. The FAA established that the information which was withheld is commercial or financial in nature and that disclosure of the NATCA's proposals and negotiating positions would cause foreseeable commercial harm and undermine the union's future collective bargaining efforts. The air traffic controller failed to exhaust his administrative remedies in challenging the withholdings and therefore cannot claim that the FAA's search was inadequate. Evidence shows that the search was adequate.