Over the dissent of two Justices, the Supreme Court refused to clarify a privacy clause in the Freedom of Information Act that protects commercial information that private organizations are required to share with the federal government. That is Exemption 4, which the Court has never interpreted, according to the dissenting Justices.
The Court’s denial of review of New Hampshire Right to Life v. Department of Health & Human Services thwarted an attempt by an anti-abortion group to get access to internal papers of Planned Parenthood that had been sent to the government in 2011 to support a grant of federal money for family planning projects in New Hampshire. The Court did not explain its order.
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