Phe, Inc. v. Department of Justice

How courts have described this case

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• holding that portions of a FBI manual describing patterns of violations, investigative techniques, and sources of information available to investigators were protected by Exemption 7(E)
• holding that portions of a FBI manual describing patterns of viola- tions, investigative techniques, and sources of information available to investigators were protected by Exemption 7(E)
• illustrating by example that an adequate affidavit would demonstrate that release of law enforcement \guidelines as to what sources of information are available to its agents might encourage violators to tamper with those sources of information and thus inhibit investigative efforts\
• illustrating by example that an adequate affidavit would demonstrate that release of law enforcement “guidelines as to what sources of information are available to its agents might encourage violators to tamper with those sources of information and thus inhibit investigative efforts”
• “non-exempt portions of a document must be disclosed unless they are inextricably intertwined with exempt portions.”
• “Material like [discussion of search and seizure law and digest of useful caselaw] is precisely the type of information appropriate for release under the FOIA.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).