Legal Opinion
Nulankeyutmonen Nkihtaqmikon v. Impson
District Court, D. Maine
Decided July 10, 2008No. CV-05-168-B-WPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER ON MOTION TO COMPEL
JOHN A. WOODCOCK, JR., District Judge.
The Court declines to compel disclosure of a predeeisional intra-agency memorandum because the document is protected by the deliberative process privilege and because the benefit and need for disclosure do not outweigh the detriments.
I. STATEMENT OF FACTS
On February 25, 2008, Nulankeyutmonen Nkihtaqmikon, a group of private citizens who are members of the Passamaquoddy tribe, together with several individual tribe members (Plaintiffs) moved to compel Robert K. Impson, Acting Regional Director for the Bureau of Indian Affairs…
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