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LAHR v. NATIONAL TRANSP. SAFETY BD.

Nos. 06-56717, 06-6732, 07-55709.

569 F.3d 964 (2009)

H. Ray LAHR, Plaintiff-Cross-Appellant/Appellee, v. NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD; Central Intelligence Agency; National Security Agency, Defendants/Cross-Appellees-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 22, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Clarke, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-cross-appellant/appellee, Ray Lahr.

Steve Frank, Leonard Schaitman, United States Department of Justice, George S. Cardona, Acting United States Attorney, and Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellants/cross-appellees, National Transportation Safety Board, et al.

Before: ROGER J. MINER, KIM McLANE WARDLAW and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges.

BERZON, Circuit Judge:

Trans World Airlines Flight 800 ("TWA Flight 800") exploded in midair off the coast of Long Island on July 17, 1996, killing all 230 people aboard. The cause of this dramatic and tragic event remains, for some, in dispute, and that dispute underlies this lawsuit brought under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. § 552.

The government, after an extensive investigation, concluded...

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