Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media
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Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media | |
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Decided June 24, 2019 | |
Full case name | Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media |
Docket no. | 18-481 |
Citations | 588 U.S. ___ (more) |
Holding | |
Where commercial or financial information is both customarily and actually treated as private by its owner and provided to the government under an assurance of privacy, the information is "confidential" within the meaning of the Freedom of Information Act. | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Gorsuch |
Dissent | Breyer, joined by Ginsberg, Sotomayor |
Laws applied | |
Freedom of Information Act |
Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media, 588 U.S. ___ (2019), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that, where commercial or financial information is both customarily and actually treated as private by its owner and provided to the government under an assurance of privacy, the information is "confidential" within the meaning of the Freedom of Information Act.[1][2]
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[edit]- Text of Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media, No. 18-481, 588 U.S. ___ (2019) is available from: Justia
This article incorporates written opinion of a United States federal court. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the text is in the public domain. "[T]he Court is unanimously of opinion that no reporter has or can have any copyright in the written opinions delivered by this Court." Wheaton v. Peters, 33 U.S. (8 Pet.) 591, 668 (1834)