The U.S. Supreme Court, hearing arguments in a case potentially impacting Amazon, Walmart and other leading retailers, seemed primed to change Freedom of Information Act disclosures in a way that would please business.
A ruling, expected by the end of June, could make it harder to use FOIA requests to access business commercial and financial information when it intersects with government programs and is held by federal agencies.
The court’s conservative majority appeared ready to buck eight federal appeals courts that have for decades narrowly interpreted the word “confidential” in a rule that exempts information from public disclosure.
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