United States v. Cortez Ingram

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How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “the courts can limit ... the persons having access to information, their freedom to discuss [that] information ... and the uses to which the information may be put”
• setting out procedure for in camera review when work-product privilege is claimed
• “Congress must clearly and strongly indicate its intent to contradict th[e] broad objective favoring disclosure in judicial proceedings.”
• FOIA “acts as a ‘floor’ when discovery of government documents is sought in the course of civil litigation,” such that “information available under the FOIA is likely to be available through discovery”
• “Statutes insulating 22 information from publication are aimed at the broadcasting of sensitive information to the general populace; the statutes are not intended to enjoin the limited kind of disclosure encountered in judicial proceedings.”
• “No great outcry has arisen that information thus restricted has been leaked, or put to improper uses, by attorneys who are sworn officers of the court. The potential harm to the government is minimal when appropriate precautions are taken.”

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