In "New York Times Company v. NASA", the D.C. District Court denied the "New York Times" request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for access to audio recordings of the astronauts involved in the "Challenger" explosion moments before the event. The major argument of the case came down to weighing public interest and the decedents' families, and the court ruled in favor of protecting the decedents' families, claiming that exposing the tapes could cause relatives of the astronauts trauma.