Arthur B. Keys, Jr. v. United States Department of Justice

How courts have described this case

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• holding that individuals who provided information about subject's possible Communist sympathies, criminal activity, and murder by foreign operatives would have worried about retaliation and, thus, had an implied assurance of confidentiality
• finding that passage of 40 years did “not so dilute the privacy interest as to tip the balance the other way”
• noting that “it is the function, not the form, of the [Vaughn ] index that is important”
• stressing that “it is the function, not the form, of the index that is important”
• explaining that “it is the function, not the form, of the [Vaughn] index that is important”
• concluding an implied assurance of confidentiality arose, in part because “it is reasonable to infer from the circumstances that its absence would impair [defendant's] ability to elicit the information.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).