September 10, 1999
Historians Lose Appeal on Rules for Preservation of Electronic Records
Historians and other groups that have tangled with the federal government over the best way to preserve electronic records lost a legal battle last month, when a federal appeals-court panel reversed a lower-court ruling on a contested policy of the National Archives and Records Administration.
The judges' unanimous decision let stand a National Archives rule that allows federal agencies to destroy electronic records after they have been printed out and put
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