United States Ninth Circuit
Center for Biological Diversity v. US Dept. of Agr., 09-17233
In the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) appeal from the district court's order requiring the USDA, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), to disclose the GPS coordinates of wolf depredations to which it had responded, the order is reversed where FOIA Exemption 3 applied because Section 8791 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 exempted from disclosure such geospatial data and applied to this case even though it took effect after the USDA withheld the coordinates.
Appellate Information
- Decided 12/02/2010
- Published 12/02/2010
Judges
- Pamela Ann Rymer
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- John S. Koppel, Matt Kenna