Wilkinson v. Federal Bureau of Investigation

How courts have described this case

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• “[W]here a source is interviewed by the FBI about a criminal suspect in an ongoing investigation, it may be reasonable to infer, absent evidence in the documents to the contrary, that such a source would assume confidentiality.” (citation omitted)
• “The FBI’s redactions also require additional justification when they involve events contained in 20-40 year-old documents. While there may have been a danger of identifying the informant when the events were recent, that danger clearly fades as the documents become decades old----”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).