United States Second Circuit

In plaintiffs' suit brought pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, against the Office of Personnel Management for withholding from disclosure the names and duty-station information of over 800,000 federal employees, the judgment of the district court is: 1) affirmed in part where the district court properly held that Exemption 6 permits defendant to withhold the names of employees working in the sensitive agencies and sensitive occupations; and 2) reversed in part where the district court erred in holding that some of the duty-station information could be withheld, as defendant has demonstrated that employees possess a cognizable privacy interest in their duty-station records de-linked from their names, and this interest clearly outweighs the public interest that might be served by disclosure.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/05/2012
• Published 09/05/2012

Judges

• Jacobs

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel