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PETROLEUM INF. CORP. v. U.S. DEPT. OF INTERIOR

No. 91-5059.

976 F.2d 1429 (1992)

PETROLEUM INFORMATION CORPORATION v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided October 27, 1992.

As Amended October 27, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew M. Collette, Attorney, Dept. of Justice, with whom Stuart M. Gerson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and Leonard Schaitman, Attorney, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Ronald L. Plesser, with whom Emilio W. Cividanes, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before: MIKVA, Chief Judge; EDWARDS and RUTH BADER GINSBURG, Circuit Judges.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge RUTH BADER GINSBURG.

RUTH BADER GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:

Petroleum Information Corporation submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Bureau of Land Management, seeking access to records from a computer data bank containing information on public lands. The data bank, called the Legal Land Description (LLD) file, will be a component of a comprehensive...

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