Morton H. Halperin v. Department of State

How courts have described this case

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• “veteran State Department employee making the classification was wholly unaware of the relevant and governing classification standards at the time he acted”
• courts are left with \some discretion in extreme circumstances\ to use their equity powers to avoid disclosure of government information which would \do grave damage to the national security\
• courts are left with “some discretion in extreme circumstances” to use their equity powers to avoid disclosure of government information which would “do grave damage to the national security”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).