Mark A. Allen v. Central Intelligence Agency

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that \court[s] not infrequently find[ ] it necessary to conduct in camera inspection\ when \utilization of [other procedures] has not proven fruitful\
• “Where there is evidence of bad faith on the part of the agency____ [i]n camera inspection is ‘plainly necessary____’ ”
• \Sufficiently detailed justifications [in public affidavits] for the agency's withholding is often impossible * * * because such justifications would reveal the very information sought to be protected.\
• “where the agency affidavits merely parrot the language of the statute and are drawn in conclusory terms, the court’s responsibility to conduct de novo review is frustrated”
• government must be afforded opportunity to justify nondisclosure before court undertakes in camera in-' spection
• considerations bearing on resort to in camera inspection

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).