National Parks and Conservation Association v. Thomas S. Kleppe, Secretary, U. S. Department of the Interior

How courts have described this case

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• holding that financial records of individually-owned businesses are subject to balancing test of personal privacy exemption
• ruling that disclosure of certain information would increase the likelihood of substantial competitive harm in part because “[suppliers, contractors, labor unions and creditors, too, could use such information to bargain for higher prices, wages or interest rates”
• ruling that disclosure of certain information would increase the likelihood of substantial competitive harm in part because “[s]uppliers, contractors, labor unions and creditors, too, could use such information to bargain for higher prices, wages or interest rates”
• affirming in part district court finding that disclosure of certain financial information would cause substantial competitive harm
• reviewing a district court’s findings following a FOIA evidentiary hearing under the standards set forth in Rule 52(a)
• reviewing for clear error a trial court’s findings—following a two-day evidentiary hearing—that certain factual predicates for an agency’s withholding were supported by “[t]he preponderance of the evidence”

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