Washington Legal Foundation v. United States Sentencing Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “whether a document must be disclosed pursuant to the common law right of access involves a two-step inquiry”
• explaining that “[i]t is well settled that [28 U.S.C. § 1361] does not by itself waive sovereign immunity”
• explaining that whether a district court has mandamus jurisdiction may “merge with the question” as to whether the plaintiff has sufficiently pleaded the essential elements of mandamus relief
• interpreting the common law right of access “[a]t least as it applies to the federal government”
• surveying state common law and other sources to delineate the bounds of the common law right of access
• acknowledging “the benefit of a comprehensive index of the specific documents at issue”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).