Klamath is the first Freedom of Information Act decision
that the Supreme Court has issued in more than four years, since
it summarily reversed the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,
and ruled in the government's favor, in Bibles v. Oregon Natural
Desert Ass'n, 519 U.S. 355 (1997), an Exemption 6 case involving
the protection of mailing lists. During the past four years, the
only other significant action taken by the Court in a FOIA case
was its nullification of a Ninth Circuit decision that had required
the disclosure of classified information, in United States v.
Weatherhead, 528 U.S. 1042 (1999), when that case suddenly
became moot shortly before Supreme Court argument at the end
of 1999. See FOIA Update, Vol. XX, No. 1, at 1. (posted 4/4/01)
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