W. Lee Birch v. United States Postal Service

How courts have described this case

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

• “paramount objective of Exemption 7(D) ... is to keep open the Government’s channels of confidential information”
• “[W]here the inquiry departs from the routine and focuses with special intensity upon a particular party, an investigation is under way.” (citation omitted)
• “[W]here the inquiry departs from the routine and focuses with special intensity upon a particular party, an investigation is under way.” (citation omitted)
• “[T]he Postal Service obviously is a mixed-function agency . . . .”
• investigation into criminal use of postal permits

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).