City of New Orleans v. Wah

How courts have described this case

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• holding that even though aerial surveillance by the FBI was commonly known, the FBI properly invoked Exemption 7(E) to avoid confirming the existence of responsive records for specified aircraft and flight plans
• finding that Glomar response was justified under Exemptions 7(A) and 7(E) based on court’s review of “both the public and the classified declarations”
• upholding a Glomar response under Exemption 7(A) because confirming whether records exist would provide criminals insight into, and allow them to thwart or impede, ongoing investigations
• “Exemption 7(A) reflects Congress’s recognition that ‘law enforcement agencies ha[ve] legitimate needs to keep certain records confidential, lest the agencies be hindered in their investigations or placed at a disadvantage when it [comes] time to present their case.’”
• “Exemption 7(A) is temporal in nature”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).