Carpenter v. United States Department of Justice

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that even if a person’s identity is known it is “a further invasion of [that person’s] protected privacy interest to positively identify him with a given criminal matter and reveal the records or information that he provided”
• finding that an informant’s privacy interests were not terminated or waived where there was a limited public disclosure hinting at the informant’s cooperation with law enforcement
• finding that an informant's privacy interests were not terminated or waived where there was a limited public disclosure hinting at the informant's cooperation with law enforcement
• stating that there “is no public interest in supplementing an individual’s request for discovery.”
• recognizing privacy interest of witnesses, informants, and those who provide information to law enforcement
• endorsing the Glomar doctrine though evaluating the case as an ordinary FOIA suit after assuming the existence of documents that plaintiff requested under FOIA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).