United States First Circuit

In this case, plaintiff filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) seeking documents related to the award of a federal grant by the Department of Health and Human Services directly to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. The Department produced some documents, but withheld others. Judgment of the district court ruling that the Department properly withheld the subject documents is affirmed, where the subject documents fell under the FOIA exemptions for confidential commercial information, 5 U.S.C. Section 552(b)(4), and inter-or-intra agency memoranda, Section 552(b)(5).

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/04/2015
• Published 02/04/2015

Judges

• Kayatta

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel