Penny Bevis v. Department of State Jay Peterzell v. Department of Justice

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Bureau could not justify withholding documents using categorical descriptions like “teletypes,” “airtels,” or “letters”
• stating that “if it wishes to adopt a generic approach, the FBI has a three fold task.”
• applying exemption where records related to potential prosecutions of murders of Americans that took place in El Salvador and the investigation of additional suspects remained active
• accepting grouping of records described as “the identities of possible witnesses and informants,” “reports on the location and viability of potential evidence,” and “polygraph reports,” but not categories identified as “teletypes,” “airtels,” or “letters”
• invoking Exemption 7(A) for law enforcement proceeding taking place in El Salvador
• federal law enforcement purpose supported in part by “strong U.S. public policy interest in facilitating Salvadoran efforts to bring to justice those who have murdered U.S. citizens”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).