Rector v. Du Val

How courts have described this case

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• determining that “[the petitioner’s] identity has no effect on the public’s awareness of vaccines and their potential risks.”
• finding that any invasion of privacy threatened by disclosure is “clearly unwarranted” when there is no relevant public purpose to be weighed against a threatened invasion
• finding that any invasion of privacy threatened by disclosure is “clearly unwarranted” when there is no relevant public purpose to be weighed against a threatened invasion
• noting that although that the evidence was “so closely balanced that the decision could have gone either way,” nevertheless “the court cannot say that the special master’s findings were arbitrary”
• balancing of interests favors redaction “where an objection [to disclosure] is made on reasonable grounds”
• balancing of interests favors redaction “where an objection [to disclosure] is made on reasonable grounds”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).