Segura-Gomez v. United States

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• holding that a requester’s belief that disclosure would reveal “much about the diligence of the agency’s investigation” was insufficient to advance a significant public interest that outweighed privacy interests
• noting a lack of consensus among the cir- cuits on the standard of review applicable in FOIA cases
• noting a lack of consensus among the cir- cuits on the standard of review applicable in FOIA cases
• noting a lack of consensus among the cir- cuits on the standard of review applicable in FOIA cases
• explaining that “a prisoner’s interest in using FOIA as a discovery tool in a collateral attack on his own conviction is also insufficient” to show a public interest that would overcome the government’s assertion that information is protected by a FOIA exemption
• “[I]f [the person seeking disclosure] did not meet his burden, there is no need to reach the more complex balancing test required for Exemption 7(C).”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).