Brisbane v. Sullivan

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that “an agency that decides to release documents that a federal statute or regulation requires to be kept confidential would not violate the Open Records Act. The agency, however, would violate the federal statute or regulation.”
• “Government agencies therefore have a duty to disclose public records unless relieved of that duty by a specific exemption or court order.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).