American Federation of Government Employees, Local 2782, Edward v. Hanlon, and Ruth A. Sanders Hanlon v. U.S. Department of Commerce

How courts have described this case

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

• holding unreasonable a search “requir[ing] the agency to locate, review, redact, and arrange for inspection a vast quantity of material”
• explaining that an agency \need not honor a request\ that is \so broad as to impose an unreasonable burden upon the agency\
• determining that a request was too broad and imposed an unreasonable burden on the agency as it “require[d] the agency to locate, review, redact, and arrange for inspection a vast quantity of material.”
• determining that a request was too broad and imposed an unreasonable burden on the agency as it “require[d] the agency to locate, review, redact, and arrange for inspection a vast quantity of material.”
• finding unreasonably burdensome FOIA request to locate “every chronological office file and correspondent file, internal and external, for every branch office, staff office [etc.]”
• finding a request unreasonably burdensome when it “would require the agency to locate, review, redact, and arrange for inspection a vast quantity of material”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).