Wheeler v. Central Intelligence Agency

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that FOIA Exemption 1 and PA Exemption K(1) “track each other, so that the fundamental question is whether the requested information is exempt under FOIA.”
• stating that “[d]iscovery is generally unavailable in FOIA actions”
• the agency “bears the burden of sustaining its decision to claim an exemption from disclosure”
• the agency 5 “bears the burden of sustaining its decision to claim an exemption from disclosure”
• “Discovery is to be sparingly granted in FOIA actions.”
• \Discovery is generally unavailable in FOIA actions.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).