OQuinn v. Hardee

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that whether FOIA Exemption (3) applies to the statute is determined by the actual words of the statute
• expressing doubt that there is any principled basis for federal judges to make such ad hoc and idiosyncratic determinations
• interpreting the analogous federal exemption and explaining that “a statute that is claimed to qualify as [a] . . . withholding statute must, on its face, exempt matters from disclosure”
• analyzing the analogous exemption under federal FOIA and explaining that courts must find a legislative “purpose to exempt matters from disclosure in the actual words of the statute (or at least in the legislative history of FOIA
• applying de novo review to agency interpretation of FOIA
• no deference to agency interpretations of exemptions

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