Illinois Education Ass'n v. Illinois State Board of Education

How courts have described this case

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• stating that an “in camera review affords the benefits of an impartial arbiter without the risks accompanying public disclosure of the documents”
• observing that for communications to be protected by the attorney-client privilege, the communication must be “made in confidence” by the client
• stating a public body may not simply state certain words or phrases as “some talisman, the mere utterance of which magically casts a spell of secrecy over the documents at issue”
• stating the public body seeking to invoke the exemption must establish it applies
• “when a public body receives a proper request for information, it must comply with that request unless one of the narrow statutory exemptions set forth in section 7 of the Act applies”
• “[I]n camera review by the circuit court is the most effective way for the public body to objectively demonstrate that the exemption claimed does, in fact, apply.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).