CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY v. USDA.

No. 09-17233.

626 F.3d 1113 (2010)

CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; Defenders of Wildlife; Sierra Club, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Wildlife Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 2, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Koppel , U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the appellant.

Matt Kenna , Western Environmental Law Center, Durango, CO, for the appellees.

Before: ARTHUR L. ALARCÓN and PAMELA ANN RYMER, Circuit Judges, and DAVID G. TRAGER, Senior District Judge.


OPINION

RYMER, Circuit Judge:

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the Center for Biological Diversity, which required the USDA, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), to disclose the GPS coordinates of wolf depredations to which it had responded. The district court held that the coordinates were not exempt from disclosure under FOIA Exemption 3 or Exemption 6. We have...

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