FRIENDS OF THE COAST FORK v. U.S. DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR

No. 95-35996.

110 F.3d 53 (1997)

FRIENDS OF THE COAST FORK; Oregon Natural Resources Council, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR; United States Fish and Wildlife Service; Marvin Plenart, Regional Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; Bruce Babbitt, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Interior, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 27, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Bahr, Bahr & Stotter, Eugene, Oregon, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Judith D. Kobbervig, Assistant United States Attorney, Portland, Oregon, for the defendants-appellees.

Before: PREGERSON and THOMAS, Circuit Judges, and REED, District Judge.


EDWARD C. REED, Jr., District Judge.

Appellants Friends of the Coast Fork ("Friends") and Oregon Natural Resources Council ("ONRC") requested, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. § 552, copies of certain documents in the possession of Appellee U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ("USFWS"). The question presented by this appeal is whether Appellants are entitled to a waiver of fees for duplication of those documents. Because we find that Friends...

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