ATV Watch v. New Hampshire Department of Transportation

How courts have described this case

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• noting that we “will consider legislative history only if the statutory language is ambiguous” (quotation omitted)
• discussing that the adequacy of an agency’s search for documents is measured by “reasonableness”; that a search need not be exhaustive; and that the agency can meet its burden by producing detailed, non-conclusory affidavits that are submitted in good faith
• “Once the agency meets its burden to show that its search was reasonable, the burden shifts to the requester to rebut the agency’s evidence by showing that the search was not reasonable or was not conducted in good faith.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).