Court Opinion

ID: 9490329
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 13:40:21.059977+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:54:02.237610
License: Public Domain

WALD, Circuit Judge,
with whom Circuit Judge TATEL joins dissenting from the denial of rehearing in banc:
Because I believe this is a case of major consequence, affecting as it does the transparency of the deliberations and the procedures of hundreds of committees set up under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences, and because I also believe the issue of statutory construction is a close and difficult one not necessarily controlled by the admittedly relevant dicta contained in Public Citizen v. U.S. Dept. of Justice, 491 U.S. 440, 109 S.Ct. 2558, 105 L.Ed.2d 377 (1989), I would hear the case in banc.