Canning v. U.S. Department of Justice

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding, where agency inadvertently failed to redact law enforcement official’s name from one document, that “[i]t would be contrary to the spirit of FOIA to deprive an individual of his privacy rights because of an agency's administrative error”
• “It would be contrary to the spirit of FOIA to deprive an individual of his privacy rights because of an agency’s administrative error.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).