Legal Opinion
Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control v. Department of Energy
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided May 30, 1991No. Civ. A. 88-7635PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GAWTHROP, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, the Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control-Philadelphia Chapter, (LANAC) and the Natural Resources Defense Council, (NRDC), brought this action under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, (FOIA), to compel the defendant, Department of Energy, (DOE), to release specified data on past nuclear-weapons explosions by the United States and the Soviet Union. These data are contained in documents that were prepared and exchanged by these nations as part of an agreement between them to conduct a joint experiment on verification of…
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