Association for Reduction of Violence v. Frank A. Hall

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• emphasizing that where possible, a court should accommodate a moving party's interest in disclosure through excising privileged sections, editing or summarizing documents, or okaying discovery subject to a protective order
• the party seeking discovery must make a threshold showing of need amounting to more than \mere speculation\
• in § 1983 action alleging retaliatory transfer to out-of-state prisons, qualified privileges recognized as potentially applicable to court’s determination that certain documents should be withheld
• “Our system of justice does not encompass ex parte determinations on the merits of cases in civil litigation.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• requiring government to disclose non-classified portions of withheld documents

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).