Legal Opinion
John Doe 1 v. Veneman
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 5, 2004No. 03-50288, 03-50919PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRADO, Circuit Judge:
These appeals arose from a lawsuit in which a group of farmers and ranchers sought to prevent the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) from releasing certain government records to the Animal Protection Institute (API) in response to API’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The district court entered an injunction preventing release of certain information, and the USDA and the API appealed.
History of the Lawsuit
The lawsuit underlying these appeals is a “reverse-FOIA” action. In a reverse-FOIA action, a plaintiff seeks to prevent a governmental agency from…
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