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· 4/10/2007

Bigwood v. United States Agency for International Development

Citations

  • 484 F. Supp. 2d 68
  • 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26024
  • 2007 WL 1051664

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that “a person avoiding harm to his life or liberty has a clear interest in the withholding” of information that would identify him publicly (quotation omitted)
  • holding that, in the unusual case where “organizations whose identities have been withheld are very small[,]” disclosing information about the organizations is tantamount to disclosing information ab out individuals
  • applying Exemption 6 to identifying information where it created a risk of physical danger to the individual
  • finding the same where the interest at issue was avoiding harm to life or liberty

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Paul L. Friedman

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