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William Jordan v. United States Department of Justice

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Overruled in part
Court
D.C. Circuit
Citation
591 F.2d 753
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
48 of 48
Citing cases (total)
48
Treatment dates
1981
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Jordan v. United States Department of Justice was overruled in part on FOIA Exemption 2. The en banc D.C.
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Circuit in Crooker v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms rejected Jordan's narrow reading of that exemption but expressly preserved its disclosure result. The Supreme Court later rejected Crooker's broader Exemption 2 rule in Milner v. Department of the Navy (2011), citing Jordan's narrow reading approvingly. Jordan's other FOIA holdings were not displaced by Crooker. All 48 flagged citations have been read. The confirmed treatment is listed below.

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48 later cases cite William Jordan v. United States Department of Justice; 48 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The en banc D.C. Circuit rejected Jordan's narrow Exemption 2 rule for law enforcement manuals while preserving the result in Jordan.

    Crooker v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms · D.C. Circuit (en banc) · filed

    Nothing in this decision should be taken to question the result reached in our previous decision in Jordan v. United States Dep’t of Justice, 591 F.2d 753 (D.C.Cir.1978) (en banc). ... It is the rationale in Jordan we reject insofar as it suggests that virtually all law enforcement manuals must be disclosed under FOIA.
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