United States First Circuit
STATE OF MAINE v. US DEP'T OF THE INTERIOR, 01-1234
District court erred in requiring a withholding agency to demonstrate that a document was prepared "primarily" for litigation purposes to protect it from disclosure as attorney work product under the Freedom Of Information Act.
Appellate Information
- Decided 07/30/2002
- Published 07/30/2002
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.