Mays v. Drug Enforcement Administration

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “we have no doubt that a source of information about a conspiracy to distribute cocaine typically faces a sufficient threat of retaliation that the information he provides should be treated as implicitly confidential”
• upholding the FBI’s withholding of information furnished by a “coded informant” based on an affidavit “describing] the DEA’s standard practice of identifying confidential informants” with such codes (internal quotation marks omitted)
• withholding the identity of a source who supplied information about a conspiracy to distribute crack and powder cocaine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).