United States Ninth Circuit

Section 207 of the National Parks Omnibus Management Act, creating a statutory exemption from the Freedom of Information Act, will apply to a case pending when that exemption was enacted, where no impermissible retroactive effect is found.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/08/2002
• Decided 12/23/2002
• Published 12/23/2002

Judges

• Before:  CANBY and RYMER, Circuit Judges, and BERTELSMAN, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Matthew P. Millea,Treon, Strick, Lucia & Aguirre, Phoenix, AZ, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Matthew M. Collette, Assistant United States Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellees.