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· 6/23/1958

Swartz v. Rogers

Citations

  • 357 U.S. 928
  • 78 S. Ct. 1373
  • 2 L. Ed. 2d 1372
  • 1958 U.S. LEXIS 782

How courts have described this case

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  • stating that the Richmond line of cases do not expressly or impliedly overrule Houchins
  • surveying precedent and history and concluding that decision to disclose government information belongs to political branches
  • rejecting a claim of First Amendment right of access to the administrative records of a state agency
  • “Neither the free speech clause nor the structure of the government described by the Constitution yields any principled basis for deciding which government information must be made available to the citizenry and which need not.”

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