Students Against Genocide v. Department of State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that photographs released to Security Council Delegates, but not to the general public, “plainly do not fall within [the] doctrine [of public disclosure]”
• holding that photographs “plainly d[id] not fall within” the public-domain doctrine because they “were not released to the general public,” and only certain outside parties were allowed to see them
• explaining that “the government may not rely on an otherwise valid exemption to justify withholding information that is already in the ‘public domain’”
• accepting explanation that the information at issue identifies exploited targets and to disclose any related information “would inform those targets of their vulnerabilities and of NSA’s specific capabilities, sources and methods”
• affirming the district court’s holding that FOIA requester waived an issue by failing to raise in in an earlier proceeding
• requiring information to be “preserved in a permanent public record” to effectuate waiver

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).