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DeLORME PUB. CO. v. NOAA OF U.S. DEPT. OF COMMERCE

Civil No. 95-94-P-H.

917 F.Supp. 867 (1996)

DeLORME PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., Plaintiff, v. The NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION OF the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Maine.

March 12, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gordon H.S. Scott, Eaton, Peabody, Bradford & Veague, P.A., Augusta, ME, for Plaintiff.

Sherri L. Wattenbarger, Richard Visek, Elizabeth A. Pugh, Federal Programs Branch, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, David R. Collins, Assistant United States Attorney, Portland, ME, for Defendant.

ORDER ON CROSS MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

HORNBY, District Judge.

I have ruled that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's ("NOAA") electronic "raster" compilations of its nautical charts — compilations that can be read by computers — are "agency records" subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") unless a specific exemption applies. DeLorme Pub. Co. v. NOAA, 907 F.Supp. 10...

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