Lasalle Extension University & Katharine Gibbs School (Inc.) v. Federal Trade Commission

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing propriety of federal FOIA requests motivated by “private self- interest . . . and . . . pecuniary benefit” but not warranting attorney fee awards
• determining whether “the information [the plaintiff] requested [as opposed to the information contested] would inflict an unwarranted invasion of privacy”
• noting that to “rebut a claim of Government unreasonableness or obduracy, the Government need not prove that the information was in fact exempt, only that the Government had a reasonable basis in law for concluding that the information in issue was exempt”
• awarding attorney’s fees because the defendants “have been recalcitrant in their opposition to [the plaintiffs] valid claim [and] have been otherwise engaged in obdurate behavior” in refusing to release the materials sought

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).