Maines Paper & Food Service, Inc. v. The Pike Company, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting a plaintiff’s assertion of the public domain exception for individuals who testified at trial because he did not provide substantially identical documents containing this information
• rejecting public domain argument where requester had not “identified the precise documents released by [agency] that are substantially identical to other documents the agency is withholding”
• rejecting public domain argument where 15 requester had not “identified the precise documents released by [agency] that are substantially identical to other documents the agency is withholding”
• \Bartko concedes that the [Postal Inspection Service] records he wants were compiled for law-enforcement purposes.\
• Plaintiff \has failed to meet its initial burden of pointing to specific information in the public domain that appears to duplicate that being withheld.\
• “[A]side from the trial testimony he references, [the plaintiff] has not even tried to explain how the balance of the materials he seeks is ‘public.’”

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