Legal Opinion
Shell Oil Co. v. Internal Revenue Service
District Court, D. Delaware
Decided August 2, 1991No. Civ. A. 89-468-JRRPublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ROTH, Circuit Judge. *
Plaintiff Shell Oil Company brought this action as part of its effort to learn the contents of certain Internal Revenue Service documents. These documents were requested by Shell under the Freedom of Information Act, but were withheld as privileged by defendants Internal Revenue Service and the Department of the Treasury. Shell has moved for partial summary judgment regarding a single document. The defendants, who shall be referred to in the remainder of this opinion as “the government,” maintain that they are entitled to withhold this document because it falls…
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