Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. v. United States Department of Energy

How courts have described this case

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• discussing Exemption 4 and stating that the burden of production rests upon the party favoring disclosure
• discussing Exemption 4 and stating that the burden of production rests upon the party favoring disclosure
• finding the identification of characteristics that might limit 17 claimant’s ability to work without explanation of how they precluded work activity was 18 insufficient to show how symptoms translated into specific functional deficits
• rejecting government and private party affidavits containing “conclusory and generalized assertions”
• allowing a citation to a regulation requiring the filing of a public form to meet the burden of production but holding that the burden was not fulfilled because the information required by the regulatory form was projected data while the document requested contained actual data
• “[T]he logic of FOIA [mandates that,] if identical information is truly public, then enforcement of an exemption cannot fulfill its purpose.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).