United States Ninth Circuit

Appellant was not a "prevailing party" under the fee-shifting provision of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. section 6972(e), and the district court engaged in a reasoned evaluations of the government's proposed redactions of a previously sealed transcript.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/14/2002
• Decided 04/14/2003
• Published 04/14/2003

Judges

• Before WOOD, Jr.,RYMER, and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jonathan Turley,Environmental Advocacy Law Center, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiffs-appellants., Roger R. Myers and Monica C. Hayde, Steinhart & Falconer LLP, San Francisco, CA, for intervenor and amicus curiae DR Partners dba Las Vegas Review-Journal.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ronald Spritzer, Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.