In a win for business advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday made it easier for the federal government to prevent companies’ financial information from being released to the public under the federal Freedom of Information Act.

By a 6-3 vote, the court in Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media adopted a pro-business interpretation of the word “confidential” in Exemption 4 of the FOIA, which allows the government to withhold from public view “trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential.”