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Center for Auto Safety v. NHTSA

Close Date:	04/30/2001
Topic(s):	FOIA and Government Transparency
Status:	closed
Citation:	244 F.3d 144 (DC Cir. 2001); 93 F.Supp. 2d 1
Date Of Involvement:	02/06/2001
Docket:	00-5128

Related Documents:
DC Circuit Court Opinion (04/30/2001) CAS's reply brief (02/06/2001)
Description:
This case challenged claims by automobile manufactures that information that they provided to NHTSA, at NHTSA's request, for the agency to use in developing a new rule on air bag design constituted trade secrets and confidential commercial information. The briefs addressed the interpretation of Exemption 4 of FOIA. The court of appeals held that none of the information was trade secret, but that the information was confidential within the meaning of exemption 4 unless CAS could rebut the manufacturers' claims that they did not customarily dislcose it to the public.

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