AMERICAN COMMERCIAL BARGE LINES CO. v. N.L.R.B.

Nos. 83-3603, 84-3092.

758 F.2d 1109 (1985)

AMERICAN COMMERCIAL BARGE LINES COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Donald L. Dotson, Donald A. Zimmerman, Robert P. Hunter, Patricia Diaz Dennis, William A. Lubbers and Emil C. Farkas, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided April 1, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aileen A. Armstrong, Asst. General Counsel for Special Litigation, Elaine Patrick (argued), N.L.R.B., Washington, D.C., Emil C. Farkas, Reg. Dir., James R. Schwartz, Atty., Reg. 9, N.L.R.B., Cincinnati, Ohio, for defendants-appellants in both cases.

David W. Goldman, Barbara S. Bison, Cincinnati, Ohio, David W. Miller (argued), John David Hoover, Roberts, Ryder, Rogers & Scism, Kenneth J. Yerkes, Indianapolis, Ind., for plaintiff-appellee in both cases.

Paxton & Seasongood, Cincinnati, Ohio, for plaintiff-appellee in No. 84-3092.

Before KEITH and KENNEDY, Circuit Judges, and PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.


CORNELIA G. KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.

The National Labor Relations Board appeals the District Court's assessment of the attorney fees incurred by plaintiff in this Freedom of Information Act suit.

In April 1982 American Commercial Barge Line Co. ("ACBL") filed a Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") request with the NLRB. The request sought copies of all statements, advice memoranda, and position letters filed by the Seafarer's International Union or the Seafarer...

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