# Roger W. Gale v. Cecil D. Andrus, Secretary, Department of Interior

> Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · August 8, 1980 · 643 F.2d 826

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9467711

## Case

- **Full name:** Roger W. GALE, Appellant, v. Cecil D. ANDRUS, Secretary, Department of Interior
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
- **Decided:** August 8, 1980
- **Citations:** 643 F.2d 826; 207 U.S. App. D.C. 76; 1980 U.S. App. LEXIS 15032
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Oberdorfer
- **Judges:** Tamm, MacKinnon, Oberdorfer, Court'
- **Cited by:** 27 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that Trust Territory need not comply with a request under the Freedom of Information Act on the independent and alternative bases that it is not an agency of the United States, it is not explicitly referred to as being within the scope of the Act and it shares enough s…

## Opinion text

OBERDORFER, District Judge,
concurring :
I agree that the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands is sufficiently “like” a Territory of the United States to qualify it for exemption by operation of Section 551(1)(C) of the Freedom of Information Act, even though for many other purposes the Trust Territory may not be “like” a United States Territory. Accordingly, I concur in the result.

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