Robert Charles Beck v. Department of Justice

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the identities of “one or two” government employees, “released in isolation, does not provide information about the agency’s own conduct”
• affirming Glomar response to request for records regarding misconduct by two DEA agents
• identity of one or two relatively low-level government wrongdoers does not provide information about the agency’s conduct, and there is no public interest in disclosure
• “A government employee has at least some privacy interest in his own employment records .... ”
• the court “need not linger over the balance; something ... outweighs nothing every time”
• “[c]onsistent with the purpose of the Act, the burden is on the agency to justify withholding requested documents”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).