Public Citizen, Inc. v. Department of Justice and National Archives and Records Administration

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining consultants were former Presidents who “clearly qualifie[d] as . . . expert[s] on the implications of disclosure of presidential records”
• “At some point, of course, features of the other relationships (above all, a possible future adversary one) might come to eclipse the consultative relationship.... ”
• “The former President clearly qualifies as an expert on the implications of disclosure of Presidential records from his administration.”
• In the context of the PRA, a former President “retains aspects of his former role—most important- ly . . . the authority to assert the executive privilege regarding Presidential communications.”
• records of outside consultant protected where agency \'enlists the help of outside experts skilled at unravelling [the] knotty complexities' of 'problems outside [the agency's] ken'\ (first alteration in Public Citizen

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).