WILLAMETTE INDUSTRIES, INC. v. UNITED STATES

No. 81-3560.

689 F.2d 865 (1982)

WILLAMETTE INDUSTRIES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Roscoe Egger, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Ralph B. Short, Arturo A. Jacobs, Robert M. Cutts, and Robert M. McKeever, District of Internal Revenue Service, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided October 7, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Miller, Atty., Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellants.

Philip N. Jones, Duffy, Georgeson, Kekel & Benner, Portland, Or., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before KILKENNY, SNEED, and SKOPIL, Circuit Judges.


SKOPIL, Circuit Judge:

The IRS appeals from a district court order requiring it to comply with a taxpayer's Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") request for data from third party taxpayers' files regarding timber sales and valuation, with the taxpayers' names and total volume of timber deleted. We affirm.

I.

Appellee, Willamette Industries, a timber producer and manufacturer of wood and forest products, made a FOIA request for disclosure of documents...

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