Black v. Sheraton Corporation of America

How courts have described this case

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

• denying application of Exemption 7 since FBI investigation was admittedly not related to law enforcement proceeding, but was conducted simply for intelligence purposes
• “A formal and proper claim of executive privilege requires ... precise and certain reasons for preserving ... confidentiality [because] ... [w]ithout this specificity ... the Court has little more than its sua sponte speculation with which to weigh the applicability of the claim.”
• improper assertion of privilege is no assertion of privilege

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).