Department of Justice v. Landano

Department of Justice v. Landano
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 24, 1993 Decided May 24, 1993
Full case name	United States Department of Justice, et al. v. Vincent James Landano
Citations	508 U.S. 165 (more) 113 S. Ct. 2014; 124 L. Ed. 2d 84
Case history
Prior	Landano v. United States Dep't of Justice, 758 F. Supp. 1021 (D.N.J. 1991); 956 F.2d 422 (3d Cir. 1992).
Holding
The Court held that the Government is not entitled to a presumption that a source is confidential within the meaning of Exemption 7(D) of the Freedom of Information Act whenever the source provides information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the course of a criminal investigation.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Byron White · Harry Blackmun John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas
Case opinion
Majority	O'Connor, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
5 U.S.C. § 552 et seq.

Department of Justice v. Landano, 508 U.S. 165 (1993), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the government is not entitled to a presumption that a source is confidential within the meaning of Exemption 7(D) of the Freedom of Information Act whenever the source provides information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the course of a criminal investigation.^[1]