Willamette Industries, Inc. v. United States

689 F.2d 865 82-2 USTC P 9625 WILLAMETTE INDUSTRIES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Roscoe Egger, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Ralph B. Short, Arturo A. Jacobs, Robert M. Cutts, and Robert M. McKeever, District of Internal Revenue Service, Defendants-Appellants. No. 81-3560. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Aug. 5, 1982. Decided Oct. 7, 1982. James Miller, Atty., Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellants. Philip N. Jones, Duffy, Georgeson, Kekel & Benner, Portland, Or., for plaintiff-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. Before KILKENNY, SNEED, and SKOPIL, Circuit Judges. SKOPIL, Circuit Judge: 1 The IRS appeals from a district court order requiring it to comply with a taxpayer's Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") request for data from third party taxpayers' files regarding timber sales and valuation, with the taxpayers' names and total volume of timber deleted. We affirm. I. 2 Appellee, Willamette Industries, a timber producer and manufacturer of wood and forest products, made a FOIA request for disclosure of documents kept by the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS"),…