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Article: Supreme Court gives White House victory for now in Cheney energy task force case
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- June 25, 2004
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GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
06-25-2004
Dateline: WASHINGTON
The Supreme Court protected the Bush administration from having to reveal potentially embarrassing details about Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force until after the November election, sending the case back to a lower court and noting a "paramount necessity of protecting the executive branch from vexatious litigation."
The justices voted 7-2 to have an appeals court decide whether a federal open government law could be used to compel the administration to publicly release task force documents, dragging out an already 3-year-old fight over the records.
Two groups that sued to get access to the task ...