Electric Traction Co. v. City of New Orleans

How courts have described this case

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

• “[Separating the pertinent from the impertinent is a judgmental process, sometimes of the highest order[.]”
• “Where the factual material is not already in the public domain, a different result might be reached.”
• Federal Court held that two factual summaries of evidence developed at a hearing before the Administrator of the EPA were exempt under a parallel provision of the federal FOIA
• for purposes of the Freedom of Information Act: “The work of the assistants in separating the wheat from the chaff is surely just as much part of the deliberative process as is the later milling by running the grist through the mind of the administrator.”
• granting protection in such a situation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).