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U. S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE v. REPORTERS COMMITTEE

No. 87-1379.

489 U.S. 749 (1989)

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ET AL. v. REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 22, 1989

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy T. Englert, Jr., argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Solicitor General Fried, Assistant Attorney General Bolton, Deputy Solicitor General Cohen, Leonard Schaitman, and John F. Daly.

Kevin T. Baine argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief was Paul Mogin.*

Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the American Newspaper Publishers Association et al. by Richard J. Ovelmen and Laura Besvinick; for the National Association of Retired Federal Employees by Joseph B. Scott and Michael J. Kator; and for Public Citizen et al. by Patti A. Goldman, Alan B. Morrison, and Eric R. Glitzenstein.

Briefs of amici curiae were filed for the State of California by John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, N. Eugene Hill, Assistant Attorney General, Paul H. Dobson, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Ramon M. de la Guardia, Deputy Attorney General; and for the American Civil Liberties Union by John A. Powell.

JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has accumulated and maintains criminal identification records, sometimes referred to as "rap sheets," on over 24 million persons. The question presented by this case is whether the disclosure of the contents of such a file to a third party "could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy" within the meaning of the Freedom of Information...

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