Robert G. Vaughn v. Bernard Rosen, Executive Director, United States Civil Service Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that when agency withholds documents or parts of documents, it must explain what it is withholding and the applicable statutory exemptions
• granting summary judgment upon agency’s representations “in candor and in good faith” that all responsive documents were made available to plaintiff
• requiring a detailed index designating “which portions of the doc- ument are disclosable and which are allegedly exempt”
• requiring agency to produce an index when agency withholds information in its response to valid FOIA request
• requiring agencies resisting FOIA disclosure to index the information withheld and provide non-conclusory justifications for doing so
• requiring agencies to prepare an itemized index correlating each withheld record, or portion thereof, with a specific FOIA exemption and the relevant part of the agency's nondisclosure justification

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).