Robinson v. Halifax Reg'l Med. Ctr.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that because the Government will rarely come forward with information permitting “either an inference of confidentiality or an inference of nonconfidentiality ... the presumption of confidentiality is irre-buttable”
• describing the “‘deliberative process’ or ‘executive’ privilege” as an “ancient privilege . . . predicated on the recognition that the quality of administrative decision-making would be seriously undermined if agencies were forced to operate in a fishbowl”
• describing the “‘deliberative process’ or ‘executive’ privilege” as an “ancient privilege . . . predicated on the recognition that the quality of administrative decision-making would be seriously undermined if agencies were forced to operate in a fishbowl”
• “We readily admit that the presumption ... in practical terms comes close to an irrebuttable one.”
• \We readily admit that the presumption ... in practical terms comes close to an irrebuttable one.\
• “Exemption 5 permits an agency to protect the confidentiality of communications from outside the agency so long as those communications are part and parcel of the agency’s deliberative process.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).