The hard drive held evidence, he said, of "tax evasion committed by French people".
Fairfax, which described the trove as "the biggest leak of confidential files in the history of the oil industry," said the files held evidence of bribes paid to Middle Eastern oil chiefs and other officials.
"Of 10 jurisdictions within the United Kingdom and the British commonwealth of nations," Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote for the majority, "none has held evidence obtained by illegal search and seizure inadmissible".
Earlier this month a Belgian environment minister was forced to resign after falsely claiming the country's intelligence services held evidence that the tens of thousands of children skipping school were being directed by unnamed powers.
Belgium's environment minister, Joke Schauvliege, resigned after falsely claiming that the country's intelligence services held evidence that "unnamed powers" were behind a student-led climate march that drew more than 35,000 participants.
Martian meteorite ALH 84001--the one that researchers claimed in 1996 held evidence of past life on Mars--is back.
Decades ago, reviewing documents for litigation meant sifting through box loads of paper, searching for the "smoking gun," that is, the documents that held evidence of wrongdoing.
Previous pre-inquest hearings have heard he had worked for Britain's MI6 intelligence service, and that the government held evidence which established a "prima facie case" Russia was behind his murder.
We'll be holding evidence sessions, visiting workplaces and hosting public debates.
To investigate whether the views of health workers influenced the reforms, we surveyed local health workers and held evidence-based discussions with local service managers and professional bodies.
A meteorite found in Antarctica holds evidence of a once-active dynamo on Vesta.
