Babets v. Secretary of Human Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding that neither constitutional nor common law executive privilege could be invoked to shield documents from production in a civil action
• holding that neither constitutional nor common law executive privilege could be invoked to shield documents from production in a civil action
• stating that exemption (d) protects documents from disclosure “while the deliberative process is ongoing and incomplete”
• declining to create “deliberative process” or “executive” privilege as asserted by the defendants
• refusing to recognize an “executive privilege” for internal government documents
• creation of such privileges is better left to \legislative determination\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).