Lewis-Bey v. United States Department of Justice

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• reasoning that individuals involved in law enforcement investigations have a substantial interest in seeing that their participation remains secret, and “[s]uch privacy interests are no less significant where the individual has testified at trial”
• reasoning that individuals involved in law enforcement investigations have a substantial interest in seeing that their participation remains secret, and “[s]uch privacy interests are no less significant where the individual has testified at trial”
• upholding non-disclosure of ATF agents’ recommendations to superiors regarding the strengths and weaknesses of agency action, because disclosure would chill such recommendations
• finding substantial “privacy interests [] no less significant where the individual has testified at trial”
• upholding government’s withholding of “the circumstances under which [electronic surveillance] techniques were used, the specific timing of their use, and the specific location where they were employed.”
• withholding the circumstances, timing, and location of electronic surveillance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).