J. Gary Shaw v. Federal Bureau of Investigation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “authorized federal investigation into the commission of state crime [the JFK assassination] qualifies” as an enforcement proceeding
• finding federal law enforcement purpose in “collaboration with [state] authorities ... looking to the early apprehension ... and conviction” of President Kennedy’s assassin
• “Requiring the second category [of Exemption 7(D) information] to come within the first [category] as well would render it entirely redundant. It is irrelevant to the second inquiry [under Exemption 7(D
• unless second clause of ___ Exemption 7(D) protects information beyond that which would reveal the identity of the source, it is redundant
• “The purpose of the confidential information exemption is to prevent the FOIA from causing the 'drying up' of sources of information in criminal investigations”
• agency ___ must \identify . . . a particular individual or a particular incident as the object of its investigation and . . . the connec- tion between that individual or incident and a . . . violation of federal law.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).