Kimberlin v. Department of Justice

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• holding that court may consider “the rank of the public official involved” to determine whether Exemption 7(C) withholding was appropriate
• concluding that disclosure of investigative file would constitute invasion of attorney’s privacy
• explaining that declarations must be sufficiently detailed \to permit adequate adversary testing of the agency's claimed right to an exemption\
• explaining that the target of a publicly disclosed investigation still retains a “privacy interest . . . in avoiding disclosure of the details of the investigation, of his misconduct, and of his punishment”
• finding that a public employee’s “statement to the press undoubtedly does diminish his interest in privacy: the public already knows who he is, what he was accused of, and that he received a relatively mild sanction”
• stating that individual’s acknowledgement of investigation “undoubtedly ... diminished” his privacy interest

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