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CAMPAIGN FOR FAMILY FARMS v. GLICKMAN

No. 99-3575.

200 F.3d 1180 (2000)

CAMPAIGN FOR FAMILY FARMS, an unincorporated association of membership organizations; Rodney Skalbeck; James Dale Joens; Richard Smith; Rhonda Perry; Lawrence E. Ginter, Jr.; Stan Scott Schutte, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Dan GLICKMAN, Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture, Defendant-Appellee. National Pork Producers Council, Intervenor Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided January 4, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward M. Mansfield, Des Moines, IA, argued (William F. Forsyth, on the brief), for appellant.

Lynn A. Hayes, St. Paul, MN, argued (Karen R. Krub, Leonard Schaitman and Sandra Wien Simon, on the brief), for appellees.

Before WOLLMAN, Chief Judge, BOWMAN, and LOKEN, Circuit Judges.

BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

The Campaign for Family Farms ("Campaign") and several individual pork producers brought this reverse Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") suit against the United States Department of Agriculture ("USDA") to prevent it from releasing a petition that calls for a referendum to terminate a federally-imposed assessment on pork sales. The petition includes the names, addresses, and phone numbers of over 19,000 pork producers who signed the petition...

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