Rural Housing Alliance v. United States Department of Agriculture

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting a construction of the exemption for “investiga- 35 39 Op. O.L.C. 12 (2015
• government report on housing discrimination found to qualify as a “similar file” because of information concerning marital status, legitimacy of children, medical condition, etc. of individual homeowners
• “What the Government is required to show is that the investigatory files were compiled for adjudicative or enforcement purposes.”
• comparable Federal exemption protects information concerning “marital status, legitimacy of children, identity of fathers of children, medical condition, welfare payments, alcoholic consumption, family fights [and] reputation”
• information concerning marital status, legitimacy of children, medical conditions, family fights and the like
• “[I]f if the investigation is for a possible violation of law, then the inquiry is for law enforcement purposes, as distinct from customary surveillance of the performance of duties by government employees.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).