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WEBER AIRCRAFT CORP., ETC. v. UNITED STATES

No. 80-5744.

688 F.2d 638 (1982)

WEBER AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, A DIVISION OF WALTER KIDDE and COMPANY, INC., and Mills Manufacturing Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 21, 1982.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied December 3, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marshall Silberberg, Kirtland & Packard, Lawrence J. Galardi, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Volney V. Brown, Asst. U.S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant-appellee.

Before CANBY and NORRIS, Circuit Judges, and SMITH, District Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied December 3, 1982.

NORRIS, Circuit Judge:

The principal issue in this case is whether witness statements given under a promise of confidentiality to an Air Force aircrash investigation board are exempt from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552. The district court held that the government was authorized to withhold the...

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