Sheet Metal Workers International Association, Local Union No. 19 v. United States Department of Veterans Affairs

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• holding that “privacy interest of employees in the non-disclosure of their names and addresses substantially outweighs the slight public interest”
• recognizing that \intervening authority\ may require a court to \reevaluate a precedent\ (internal quotation marks omitted) (citing Reich v. D.M. Sabia Co. , 90 F.3d 854 , 858 (3d Cir. 1996) and Casey , 947 F.2d at 698 )
• recognizing that the only relevant public interest in disclosure is the extent to which disclosure would serve the core purpose of the FOIA, which is contributing significantly to public understanding of the operations or activities of the government
• weighing heavily “[t]he significant privacy concerns attached to the home and employees’ interest in avoiding a barrage of unsolicited contact”
• utilizing a two-tiered review of FOIA cases to determine whether the district court had an adequate factual basis for its determination, and then whether the determination was clearly erroneous
• disclosure of names and home addresses of governmental contract employees constitutes an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy

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