McGehee v. United States Department of Justice

How courts have described this case

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• finding that agency properly withheld names of agents under exemption 7(C) where plaintiffs “failed to convincingly explain how knowing the names of the persons involved” would shed light on agency’s performance of statutory duties
• upholding 7(C) withholdings by the FBI to protect the identifying information of “FBI Agents and Support Personnel” and “Local and/or State Government Employees”
• upholding non-disclosure of third parties merely mentioned and third parties of investigative interest
• \the relevant question is not whether the public would like to know the names ... but whether knowing those names would shed light on the FBI's performance of its statutory duties.\
• “the relevant question is not whether the public would like to know the names . . . but whether knowing those names would shed light on the FBI’s performance of its statutory duties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).