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151234P.pdf   09/09/2016  American Farm Bureau  v.  EPA
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-1234
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Loken and Murphy, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Freedom of Information Act. In this "reverse" Freedom of Information Act action alleging the EPA's disclosure of certain information about concentrated animal feeding operations was an unlawful release of the plaintiff associations' members' personal information, the district court erred in dismissing the action on the ground plaintiffs lacked Article III standing; assuming, for purposes of standing analysis, that plaintiffs' claim would be successful on the merits, the plaintiffs have established a concrete and particularized injury in fact traceable to the EPA's action and redressable by judicial relief; the court further determines that the EPA abused its discretion in deciding that the information at issue was not exempt from mandatory disclosure under Exemption 6 of FOIA; the dismissal of the action is reversed, and the matter is remanded for the district court to consider the plaintiffs' request for injunctive relief.