The Nation Magazine, Washington Bureau, and Max Holland v. United States Customs Service

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• acknowledging the “obvious privacy interest” cognizable under Exemption 7(C) and extending this interest “to third parties who may be mentioned in investigatory files”
• collecting authority and holding that individuals have a privacy interest when they are “mentioned in investigatory files” or identified as someone who “provided information during the course of an investigation”
• directing district court to order further affidavits to review the adequacy of the search
• finding a public interest in records pertaining to federal authorities’ drug interdiction efforts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).