Supreme Court Case Explores Privacy of Business Data in Food-Stamp Case

The Supreme Court weighed whether government documents that contain private business information should be more broadly protected from release to the public, in a case with ramifications for companies, the press and open-government advocates.

At issue Monday was a Freedom of Information Act dispute between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Argus Leader, a South Dakota newspaper that sought information for an investigation into fraud involving the federal food-stamp initiative, the Supplemental Nutrition...