Law, Strategy, and Risk in Commercial Disputes
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 …
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…