Christopher Shelton Hunt v. Federal Bureau of Investigation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that government employees have a legitimate interest in protecting private information that could conceivably subject them to annoyance or harassment
• holding that a government employee has a privacy interest in any file that reports on an investigation that could lead to the employee’s discipline or censure
• concluding that a file related to the investigation of a complaint submitted to 14 the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility alleging employee misconduct was 15 compiled for law enforcement purposes
• no public interest in documents that are “no longer of any interest to anyone other than the party who instigated [the request]”
• “The single file sought by Hunt will not shed any light on whether all such FBI investigations are comprehensive or whether sexual misconduct by agents is common.”
• “A government employee generally has a privacy interest in any file that reports on an investigation that could lead to the employee’s discipline or censure.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).