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Quote of the Day: John Glover Roberts, Jr.

By Barry Barnett on March 1, 2011

We trust that AT&T won't take it personally.

Federal Communications Comm'n v. AT&T Inc., No. 09-1279, slip op. 12 (U.S. Mar. 1, 2011) (Roberts, C.J.) (holding, 8-0, that "personal privacy" in exemption from Freedom of Information Act means privacy of an individual and not privacy of a Fortune 100 company); see posts on the …

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Supreme Court Looks Doubtful on “Personal Privacy” of False Persons

By Barry Barnett on February 1, 2011

In September of 2009, a court of appeals panel upheld the right of firms — and of all other "persons" fictitious in law — to block the feds' release of emails and other documents that the firms submitted to the feds but that might cast them in a bad light.  See "Do Fake Persons…

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Barnett is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a partner in Susman Godfrey’s Dallas and New York offices, and a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. With three decades of trial work representing both plaintiffs and defendants, Barnett is a master strategist in complex commercial litigation.

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