National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting Report was “developed . . . for the purpose of providing advice”
• one of the purposes of FOIA is the avoidance of undisclosed written rules of decision for administrative action
• “That Congress had the Government's 26 executive privilege specifically in mind in adopting Exemption 5 is clear.”
• “Congress has delegated to the Office of General Counsel on ‘behalf of the Board’ the unreviewable authority to determine whether a complaint shall be filed”
• “It is equally clear that Congress had the attorney’s work-product privilege specifically in mind when it adopted Exemption 5[.]”
• “[C]ourts should be wary of interfering” with drafts that “do not ripen into agency decisions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).