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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