Harold Weisberg v. U. S. Department of Justice

How courts have described this case

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• finding that district court 19 “should have sought the presence of the alleged copyright holder” under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19 prior to assessing release of copyrighted photographs in FBI investigation
• non-parties generally will only be bound where they have been fairly represented by one of the parties in the earlier litigation
• government runs a substantial risk of incurring inconsistent obligations between compliance with the Freedom of Information Act and a possible copyright infringement action brought by the copyright holder

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