MONTROSE CHEMICAL CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA v. TRAIN

Nos. 73-1443, 73-1444.

491 F.2d 63 (1974)

MONTROSE CHEMICAL CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA, Appellant, v. Russell E. TRAIN, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, Appellee. MONTROSE CHEMICAL CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA, Appellee, v. Russell E. TRAIN, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided January 21, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Ackerly, Washington, D. C., with whom Charles A. O'Connor, III, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant in No. 73-1443 and appellee in No. 73-1444.

Stephen F. Eilperin, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Harold H. Titus, Jr., U. S. Atty., and Walter H. Fleischer, Atty., Dept. of Justice were on the brief for appellant in No. 73-1444 and appellee in No. 73-1443.

John A. Terry and Robert S. Rankin, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., also entered appearances for appellant in No. 73-1444 and appellee in No. 73-1443.

Before TAMM, ROBINSON and WILKEY, Circuit Judges.


WILKEY, Circuit Judge:

In an action brought under the Freedom of Information Act [FOIA]1 Montrose Chemical Corporation is seeking to obtain two summaries of evidence developed at a hearing. The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], the official for whom the summaries were prepared, then William Ruckelshaus, contends that the summaries are exempt from disclosure under the intra-agency memoranda exception of FOIA. Exemption...

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