Legal Opinion
Public Citizen Health Research Group v. Food & Drug Administration
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 6, 1999No. Nos. 98-5161, 98-5162PublishedCited by 223 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GINSBURG.
Opinion concurring in the result filed by Circuit Judge GARLAND.
GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, the Public Citizen Health Research Group asked the Food and Drug Administration for documents relating to drug applications that had been abandoned for health or safety reasons. The FDA denied this request and Public Citizen sued the agency in district court, where Schering Corporation, which had submitted five in-vestigational new drug applications (INDs) of the sort requested by Public Citizen, intervened as…
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