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

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United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 7, 1988 Decided March 22, 1989
Full case name	United States Department of Justice, et al. v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, et al.
Citations	489 U.S. 749 (more) 109 S. Ct. 1468; 103 L. Ed. 2d 774; 57 U.S.L.W. 4373; 16 Media L. Rep. 1545
Case history
Prior	816 F.2d 730, opinion modified and rehearing denied, 831 F.2d 1124 (D.C. Cir. 1987) (reversed)
Holding
Disclosure of the contents of an FBI rap-sheet to a third party "could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy" within the meaning of Exemption 7(C), and therefore is prohibited by that Exemption
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy
Case opinions
Majority	Stevens, joined by Rehnquist, White, Marshall, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy
Concurrence	Blackmun (in judgment), joined by Brennan
Laws applied
Freedom of Information Act

United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, 489 U.S. 749 (1989), was a case before the United States Supreme Court.