Legal Opinion
Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Food & Drug Administration
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 11, 2016No. 13-17131PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge GRABER; per curiam Concurrence.
OPINION
GRABER, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request with the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) regarding egg-production farms in Texas. The FDA released almost 400 pages of documents but redacted data regarding total hen population, number of hen houses, number of floors per house, number of cage rows per house, number of cage tiers per house, and number of birds- per cage for each farm in question.- Plaintiff filed this FOIA action seeking to compel the FDA to release the…
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