Aguiar v. Drug Enforcement Administration

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that, if “files consist[] of physical documents,” a search in which “each” document is “examined manually” is adequate
• noting that if an agency conducted an adequate search it “can say so in a new declaration”
• observing that FOIA applies only to documents that “an agency both (1) creates or obtains, and (2) controls at the time the FOIA request was made” (cleaned up)
• affidavit identifying agency offices “tasked with conducting a search” of specific files but not explaining “how [the offices] searched within those files” insufficient to support summary judgment
• courts can grant summary judgment based on agency declarations “if they are not called into question by . . . evidence of agency bad faith”

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Cited by

91 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press v. Federal Bureau of Investigation
  D.C. Circuit· 2017-12-15· cited 115×
• Institute For Justice v. IRS
  D.C. Circuit· 2019-11-01· cited 26×
• Lamb v. Millennium Challenge Corp.
  D.C. Circuit· 2018-09-24· cited 21×
• Judge Rotenberg Educ. Ctr., Inc. v. U.S. Food & Drug Admin.
  D.C. Circuit· 2019-03-21· cited 16×
• Doyle v. U.S. Dep't of Homeland Sec.
  S.D. Illinois· 2018-07-26· cited 15×
• Taylor Energy Co. v. United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
  District of Columbia· 2017-09-21· cited 12×
• Forest County Potawatomi Community v. Sally Jewel
  District of Columbia· 2017-09-30· cited 11×
• Cause of Action Institute v. OMB
  D.C. Circuit· 2021-08-20· cited 10×
• Am. Oversight v. U.S. Gen. Servs. Admin.
  D.C. Circuit· 2018-05-03· cited 10×
• Stephen Aguiar v. DEA
  D.C. Circuit· 2021-04-02· cited 9×
• Niskanen Ctr., Inc. v. U.S. Dep't of Energy
  D.C. Circuit· 2018-09-13· cited 9×
• Shapiro v. U.S. Dep't of Justice
  D.C. Circuit· 2018-02-01· cited 4×
• King & Spalding LLP v. U.S. Dep't of Health & Human Servs.
  D.C. Circuit· 2018-09-07· cited 4×
• Pinson v. U.S. Dep't of Justice
  D.C. Circuit· 2018-05-23· cited 3×
• Aguiar v. Drug Enforcement Admin.
  D.C. Circuit· 2018-09-24· cited 3×
• Pinson v. U.S. Department of Justice
  District of Columbia· 2017-08-31
• Burke v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  District of Columbia· 2017-09-08
• Shapiro v. Department of Justice
  District of Columbia· 2018-02-01
• Rodriguez v. Federal Bureau of Investigation
  District of Columbia· 2018-02-21
• American Oversight v. U.S. General Services Administration
  District of Columbia· 2018-05-03

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 135,235×
• Carl Oglesby v. The United States Department of the Army
  D.C. Circuit· 1990-12-04· cited 1,525×
• Kissinger v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-03· cited 892×
• Susan D. Goland and Patricia B. Skidmore v. Central Intelligence Agency
  D.C. Circuit· 1978-05-23· cited 821×
• United States Department of Justice v. Tax Analysts
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-23· cited 804×
• Valencia-Lucena v. United States Coast Guard
  D.C. Circuit· 1999-06-25· cited 765×
• Morley v. Central Intelligence Agency
  D.C. Circuit· 2007-12-07· cited 720×
• Weisberg v. U.S. Department of Justice
  D.C. Circuit· 1983-04-05· cited 701×
• GUILLERMO FELIPE DUEÑAS ITURRALDE v. COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY
  D.C. Circuit· 2003-01-17· cited 566×
• Harold Weisberg v. United States Department of Justice
  D.C. Circuit· 1980-04-28· cited 372×
• Judicial Watch, Inc. v. United States Secret Service
  D.C. Circuit· 2013-08-30· cited 253×
• Chester Kowalczyk v. Department of Justice
  D.C. Circuit· 1996-01-09· cited 239×
• Aron Dibacco v. United States Army
  D.C. Circuit· 2015-07-31· cited 209×
• Matthew G. Yeager v. Drug Enforcement Administration
  D.C. Circuit· 1982-05-14· cited 184×
• Consumer Federation of America v. Department of Agriculture
  D.C. Circuit· 2006-06-30· cited 152×
• United States v. Aguiar
  Second Circuit· 2013-12-13· cited 91×
• Tax Analysts v. United States Department of Justice
  D.C. Circuit· 1988-04-29· cited 85×
• Darrell Debrew v. Atwood
  D.C. Circuit· 2015-06-30· cited 84×
• Competitive Enterprise Institute v. Office of Science and Technology Policy
  D.C. Circuit· 2016-07-05· cited 37×

Other cases named Aguiar v. Drug Enforcement Administration

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Aguiar v. Drug Enforcement Administration
  District of Columbia· 2015-09-30· cited 1×
• Aguiar v. Drug Enforcement Administration
  District of Columbia· 2015-11-24