Kanuth v. Prescott, Ball & Turben, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that where a trial court properly reviewed contested documents in camera, an adequate factual basis for the decision exists
• concluding that where a trial court properly reviewed contested documents in camera, an adequate factual basis for the decision exists
• stating that in asserting a FOIA exemption “the government need not spec- ify its objections in such detail as to compromise the secrecy of the information”
• noting the availability of any alternative means of obtaining the requested information is a factor in determining whether disclosure is proper
• finding an exception to the first-to-file rule where the second-filed case had proceeded beyond the first-filed case
• describing the “first-to-file” rule as “a discretionary doctrine which permits one 19 district to decline judgment on an issue which is properly before another district”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).