Washington Post Company v. United States Department of Justice

How courts have described this case

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• noting that Exemption 7(B) “requires that release “would’ deprive a person of a fair adjudication” while most other exemptions use the word “could”
• “Information relating to business judgments and relationships does not qualify” as a personal privacy interests under Exemption 7(C), “even if disclosure might tarnish someone’s professional reputation.”
• \We will decide the exemption (4) question” if \the report [at issue] is not shielded under exemption (7)(B)”
• “Information relating to business judgments and relationships does not qualify” as personal privacy interests under Exemption 7(C), “even if disclosure might tarnish someone’s professional reputation” (citations omitted)
• “[The] FOIA is to be interpreted with a presumption favoring disclosure and exemptions are to be construed narrowly.”
• “[The] FOIA is to be interpreted with a presumption favoring disclosure and exemptions are to be construed narrowly.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).