Williams v. Burrows

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when an agency has “actual legal authority” to compel production of information, such production is not voluntary for the purposes of the FOIA
• concluding that an agency's legal authority to obtain records from a private party dictates whether the submission of those records is mandatory
• noting that “in assessing customary disclosure, the court will consider how the particular party customarily treats the information, not how the industry as a whole treats the information”
• explaining that D.C. Circuit caselaw narrowly cabins trade secrets to information relating to the “productive process” itself
• arguing that “the submitters ‘have a strong 27 interest in maintaining confidential treatment for their information’” (emphasis added
• directing the district court to review the submitter’s declarations and any relevant responses that they might supply

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).