Batley v. Davis

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a plaintiff waives an argument by failing to present it to the district court
• explaining that the focus is not on whether additional documents might possibly exist, but whether the government adequately searched for responsive documents
• noting that it is up to the parties, not courts, to “articulate the record evidence considered material to each legal theory” and explaining that the court “will not scour the record to determine whether evidence exists” (citations omitted)
• “Judges are not like pigs, hunting for truffles buried in briefs.” (quotation cleaned up)
• “Congress enacted FOIA to facilitate public access to federal agency records and information.”
• “Judges are not like pigs, hunting for truffles buried in briefs.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).