Williams & Connolly v. Securities & Exchange Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that, for FOIA purposes, “what harm the requester might suffer from not getting the information” is irrelevant
• observing that, for FOIA purposes, \what harm the requester might suffer from not getting the information\ is irrelevant
• noting that under FOIA, a party’s notes in a criminal trial still remain work product material protected by FOIA, even though “[i]n criminal trials, evidentia-ry privileges may give way for any number of reasons”
• “[The] FOIA is neither a substitute for criminal discovery . . . nor an appropriate means to vindicate discovery abuses[.]” (internal citations omitted)
• “[F]OIA is neither a substitute for criminal discovery, . . . nor an appropriate means to vindicate discovery abuses.”
• “Once the documents are released to the requesting party, there no longer is any case or controversy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).