Steven E. Perlman v. United States Department of Justice, Janet Reno, Robert L. Ashbaugh, Howard L. Sribnick and Deborah Marie Briscoe, 1

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “a government employee who is the subject of an investigation possesses a strong privacy interest in avoiding disclosure of the details of the investigation”
• applying a five-factor test where the government employee is the subject of an investigation
• witnesses and third parties had “strong” privacy interests; investigative target’s privacy interest was “somewhat diminished”
• “The public’s interest in learning the identity of witnesses and other third parties is minimal because that information tells little or nothing about [the government’s alleged misconduct]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).