Conservation Force v. Ashe

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the agency “should have undertaken a search for the ‘entire’ administrative record to satisfy its .FOIA obligation, notwithstanding any more limited construction that could have been applied to the request”
• noting that an agency must submit a “reasonably detailed affidavit” when seeking summary judgment regarding the reasonableness of its search for records (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• noting that an agency must submit a \reasonably detailed affidavit\ when seeking summary judgment regarding the reasonableness of its search for records (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• rejecting reading of FOIA request that “renders portions of the request mere surplusage”
• “In the FOIA context, ... a court maintains jurisdiction even after an agency releases documents when other related issues, such as the proper scope of the agency’s search, remain unresolved.”
• “In the FOIA context, . . . a court maintains jurisdiction even after an agency releases documents when other related issues, such as the proper scope of the agency’s search, remain unresolved.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).