unempl.ins.rep. (Cch) P 14851b Bernice Ortiz v. United States Department of Health and Human Services

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• upholding FOIA exemption claim based in part on implied assurance of confidentiality for communications to agency’s fraud detection hotline
• finding it reasonable to assume close relationship between target of investigation and source based on nature of allegations and contents of an anonymous letter, which demonstrated source's awareness of personal details of target's life
• finding it reasonable to assume close relationship between target of investigation and source based on nature of allegations and contents of an anonymous letter, which demonstrated source’s awareness of personal details of target’s life
• “serious and damaging allegations of misconduct that could initiate criminal investigations or lead to other serious sanctions can reflect an implied assurance of confidentiality”
• “In FOIA cases, the government bears the burden of establishing that any exemption from disclosure applies.”
• Exemption 7(D) is meant to protect confidential sources from retaliation that may result from the disclosure of their participation in law enforcement activities.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).