Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal.

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• recognizing that “[t]he remedy of mandamus is a drastic one, to be invoked only in extraordinary situations”
• holding that when the state is a litigant in a federal civil rights action, state laws 19 restricting access to information do not apply
• recognizing the need to ensure that the “balance between petitioners’ claim[] of ... privilege and plaintiffs’ asserted need for the documents is correctly struck”
• recognizing the need to ensure that the \balance between petitioners' claim[] of... privilege and plaintiffs' asserted need for the documents is correctly struck\
• recognizing that, in order to ensure “the writ will issue only in extraordinary circumstances, ... the party seeking issuance of the writ [must] have no other adequate means to attain the relief’ sought
• stating that in camera review is the appropriate way to deal with a claim of executive privilege

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