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Originally posted by Kathi:
https://law.justia.com/cases/f...1182-2021-10-13.html


LINK HAS THE OPINION.



Friends of Animals v. Bernhardt, et al., No. 20-1182 (10th Cir. 2021)
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Justia Opinion Summary

Animal rights organization Friends of Animals served a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) seeking disclosure of form 3-177s submitted by wildlife hunters and traders seeking to import elephant and giraffe parts. FWS disclosed the forms with redactions. Most relevant here, it withheld the names of the individual submitters under FOIA Exemptions 6 and 7(C), which prevent disclosure of information when a privacy interest in withholding outweighs the public interest in disclosure, as well as information on one Form 3-177 under Exemption 4, which prevents the disclosure of material that is commercial and confidential. Friends of Animals challenged these redactions in the district court, which granted summary judgment in favor of FWS, upholding the redactions. The Tenth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part, finding the district court erred in granting summary judgment in favor of FWS as to the withholdings in the Elephant Request under Exemptions 6 and 7(C) and as to the withholdings under Exemption 4. The Court affirmed summary judgment as to the withholdings in the Giraffe Request.

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Originally posted by Kathi:
https://www.coloradopolitics.c...e6-571330ba9880.html



Harassment of elephant importers not a reason to withhold names, appeals court rules

I do not have access to this news article.

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Originally posted by delloro:
The interest is in access to govt records. That is all. The people do, and should, have presumptive access to govt records. However, privacy should also be respected. The trick as always is finding the right balance.