United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1989-03-22

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Justice Blackmun, with whom Justice Brennan joins, concurring in the judgment. I concur in the result the Court reaches in this case, but I cannot follow the route the Court takes to reach that result. In other words, the Court’s use of “categorical balancing” under Exemption 7(C), I think, is not basically sound. Such a bright-line rule obviously has its appeal, but I wonder whether it would not run agroun…

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