Barnard v. Department of Homeland Security

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that declarants must have “personal knowledge of the procedures used in handling a FOIA request” and the “documents in question” but “are not required to participate in the search for records” (formatting omitted)
• relying on in camera review after rejecting declaration that failed to describe proportion of non-exempt information
• noting that “[a] declarant in a FOIA case satisfies the personal knowledge requirement in Rule 56(e) if in his declaration, he attests to his personal knowledge of the procedures used in handling a FOIA request and his familiarity with the documents in question”
• noting that “[a] declarant in a FOIA case satisfies the personal knowledge requirement in Rule 56(e) if in his declaration, he attests to his personal knowledge of the procedures used in handling a FOIA request and his familiarity with the documents in question”
• noting that “[a] declarant in a FOIA case satisfies the personal knowledge requirement in Rule 56(e) if in his declaration, he attests to his personal knowledge of the procedures used in handling a FOIA request and his familiarity with the documents in question”
• explaining that “[a] declarant in a FOIA case satisfies the personal knowledge requirement in Rule 56(e) if in [her] declaration, [she] attests to [her] personal knowledge of the procedures used in handling [a FOIA ] request and [her] familiarity with the documents in question”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).