FOIA Order Compelling Disclosure By USDA Reversed
In Center for Biological Diversity v. US Dept. of Agr., No. 09-17233, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) appeal from the district court’s order requiring the USDA, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), to disclose the GPS coordinates of wolf depredations to which it had responded, the court reversed where FOIA Exemption 3 applied because Section 8791 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 exempted from disclosure such geospatial data and applied to this case even though it took effect after the USDA withheld the coordinates.
Related Resources
- Read the Ninth Circuit’s Decision in Center for Biological Diversity v. US Dept. of Agr., No. 09-17233
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