Legal Opinion
Exxon Corp. v. Federal Trade Commission
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 7, 1978No. 77-2473PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM, Jr., Circuit Judge.
Exxon Corporation and Gulf Oil Corporation, in response to a subpoena duces tecum, have turned over to the Federal Trade Commission a substantial volume of documents many of which are confidential. They then joined with other plaintiffs in the filing of a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware seeking a declaratory judgment to the effect that the FTC was not providing and could not provide adequate protection for its confidential documents and that those documents are not obtainable pursuant to the Freedom of…
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