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Public Citizen Health Research Group v. Food and Drug Administration
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
185 F.3d 898 (1999)
- Written by Alex Ruskell, JD
Facts
The Public Citizen Health Research Group (plaintiff) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for any documents related to drug applications that had been abandoned for health or safety reasons. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) denied the request. The group sued, and the Schering Group intervened as a defendant because it had submitted five investigational new-drug applications that the group was investigating. Schering claimed that revealing health and safety information from its abandoned investigational new-drug applications would cause it competitive harm, so the FDA could not disclose that information under Exemption 4 of the act.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Ginsburg, J.)
Concurrence (Garland, J.)
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