An excellent example of how Exemption 5 is abused can be found in the State Department's release late Tuesday night of the first batch of Hillary Clinton's emails.
For example, the proposal includes a number of exemptions for banks to make bets with their own money, including market-making, or facilitating trading of a certain security, and hedging risks "on a portfolio basis".
In the context of user fee exemptions the examples of these consequences are numerous [ 1] (see also the following articles by Touré and by Diarra/Ousseni in this issue).
For example, Carol M. Browner, the E.P.A. administrator in the Clinton administration, has argued both for and against these sorts of exemptions.
There are many examples of organic cattle farmers who have obtained exemptions from the organic guidelines because their animals have suffered from nematode parasites.
For example, he has made it easier to dodge the requirement to buy insurance, by adding to the law's long list of exemptions for "hardship".
Then there's the question of exemptions.
The list of exemptions continues ….
There are a number of exemptions for resales of securities.
Open records laws with hundreds of exemptions.
