United States First Circuit
STATE OF MAINE v. US DEP'T OF THE INTERIOR, 01-1234
Where index of documents withheld and affidavit of party responding to Freedom of Information Act request failed to demonstrate 1) that documents withheld based on work-product doctrine were created primarily for litigation purposes, and 2) the confidential nature of information contained in documents withheld as attorney-client privileged communications, district court did not err in ordering disclosure of documents, and summary judgment affirmed.
Appellate Information
- Decided 04/05/2002
- Published 04/05/2002
Judges
- Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, ROSENN and CYR, Senior Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States First Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Leonard Schaitman, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Matthew M. Collette, Assistant United States Attorney, Paula B. Silsby, United States Attorney, and Stuart E. Schiffer, Acting Assistant Attorney General, were on brief for appellants.
- For Appellees:
- Christopher C. Taub, Assistant Attorney General of Maine, with whom Paul Stern, Deputy Attorney General of Maine, and G. Steven Rowe, Attorney General of Maine, were on brief for appellees.