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· 3/5/1995

Triestman v. United States Department of Justice

Citations

  • 878 F. Supp. 667
  • 1995 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3178
  • 1995 WL 113963

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that if the agency’s affidavits are adequate on their face, summary judgment should be granted “only if the plaintiff makes a showing of bad faith sufficient to impugn the affidavits . . . based on more than mere speculation
  • where “the only interest significantly served by disclosure is the personal interest of the plaintiff, who seeks information for use in a collateral challenge to his conviction,” there is “no public interest [to] outweigh[ ] the privacy interests”

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Judges: Koeltl

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