In Re United States of America, Socialist Workers Party v. The Attorney General

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• holding the party seeking disclosure of the informant’s identity and/or communications bears the burden of establishing the need for such disclosure
• no interlocutory review of discovery order absent certification, “manifest abuse of discretion,” or legal question of “extraordinary significance”
• “[b]y withholding the identity of the informer, the government profits ...
• “The doctrine of informer privilege is applied in civil cases as well as criminal. ... Indeed, there is ample authority for the proposition that the strength of the privilege is greater in civil litigation than in criminal.”’

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