NATIONAL PARKS & CONSERVATION ASS'N v. KLEPPE

No. 76-1044.

547 F.2d 673 (1976)

NATIONAL PARKS AND CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION, Appellant, v. Thomas S. KLEPPE, Secretary, U. S. Department of the Interior, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided November 15, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor H. Kramer, Washington, D. C., with whom Richard B. Wolf, Washington, D. C., was on the brief for appellant.

Michael F. Hertz, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., with whom Rex E. Lee, Asst. Atty. Gen., Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty. and William Kanter, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., were on the brief for Federal appellees.

W. Stanfield Johnson, Washington, D. C., with whom A. Tupper Brown, Washington, D. C., was on the brief for appellee, Conference of National Park Concessioners.

Before TAMM and MacKINNON, Circuit Judges, and KAUFMAN, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge TAMM.

TAMM, Circuit Judge.

This appeal arises out of a suit under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1975 Supp.) (FOIA) brought by appellant National Parks and Conservation Association1 to enjoin various governmental defendants from withholding financial records filed by certain national park concessioners with the National Park Service (NPS).2

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