Bigwood v. United States Department of Defense

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• holding that the agency releasing pages with “interspersed redactions” demonstrates that it “conducted a line-by-line review to ensure that it provided all reasonably segregable information.”
• acknowledging that the use of \the additional terms may have increased the possibility that additional responsive materials would be identified\
• remarking that “[t]he adequacy of a FOIA search is generally determined by the appropriateness of the methods used to carry out the search, and not by the actual search results” (citation omitted)
• explaining that NETL produced documents “involv[ing] the Office of the Secretary”
• rejecting plaintiffs argument that declaration was inadequate because it did not “describe the in-place operating systems or software that was searched”
• finding search description sufficient despite absence of information concerning Boolean operators or 12 connectors used in electronic search

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