United States Ninth Circuit
Lahr v. National Transp. Safety Bd., 06-56717
In a Freedom of Information Act action seeking documents pertaining to a government investigation of a plane crash, the District Court's order requiring the production of some of the documents sought is affirmed in part, where certain documents were not protected by the deliberative process privilege; but reversed in part, where the eyewitness testimony sought would infringe protected privacy interests.
Appellate Information
- Argued 08/08/2008
- Decided 06/22/2009
- Published 06/22/2009
Judges
- BERZON, Circuit Judge:, Before: ROGER J. MINER,KIM McLANE WARDLAW and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellees:
- John H. Clarke, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-cross-appellant/appellee, Ray Lahr., Steve Frank, Leonard Schaitman, United States Department of Justice, George S. Cardona, Acting United States Attorney, and Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellants/cross-appellees, National Transportation Safety Board, et al.