Justices Must Require Release of Species Records, Group Says

Bloomberg Law, July 28, 2020

• Case involves FOIA request for endangered species documents

• Sierra Club says records not protected under exemption

The federal government can’t keep Endangered Species Act documents under wraps simply by labeling them drafts, the Sierra Club told the U.S. Supreme Court.

In a brief filed Monday, the environmental group urged the justices to uphold a lower court’s decision ordering the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service to hand over the records under the Freedom of Information Act.

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