Banks v. Department of Justice

How courts have described this case

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

• granting defendants’ summary judgment motion with respect to plaintiff’s FOIA claims against the EOUSA
• finding plaintiff had failed to exhaust before filing suit because “[i]t cannot be said that an agency improperly held records if the agency did not receive a request 7 for those records”
• dismissing FOIA suit for failure to comply with regulation requiring proof of identification
• “The term ‘agency’ as defined for 10 purposes of FOIA and the Privacy Act expressly excludes the courts of the United States[.]”
• “[T]he Administrative Office of the United States Courts is an arm of the federal courts and therefore is not subject to FOIA . . . .”
• “Redaction of the names of law enforcement personnel under similar circumstances routinely is upheld.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).