National Association of Retired Federal Employees v. Constance Horner, Director, Office of Personnel Management

How courts have described this case

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• holding that courts cannot “ignore the impact on personal privacy of the more general disclosure that will likely ensue”
• holding “the privacy interest of an individual in avoiding the unlimited disclosure of his or her name and address is significant”
• noting that “unless the public would learn something directly about the workings of the Government,” there is no public interest in disclosure (emphasis in original)
• concluding that “even a modest privacy interest, outweighs nothing every time”
• stating that where no public interest is shown, even a modest privacy interest will prevail against disclosure of (b)(6) material
• observing that “something, even a modest privacy interest, outweighs nothing every time.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).