Dent v. Executive Office for the United States Attorneys

How courts have described this case

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• finding adequate the FBI’s search of its Central Records System, in response to the plaintiffs FOIA request
• “Notwithstanding the categorical protection to law enforcement techniques and procedures afforded under the first clause of Exemption 7(E), no agency can rely on a declaration written in vague terms or in a conclusory manner.”
• “Notwithstanding the categorical protection to law enforcement techniques and procedures afforded under the first clause of Exemption 7(E) . . . no agency can rely on declarations written in vague terms or in a conclusory manner.”
• “It is a FOIA requester’s obligation to articulate a public interest sufficient to outweigh an individual’s privacy interest, and the public interest must be significant.”
• “It is a FOIA requester’s obligation to articulate a public interest sufficient to outweigh an individual’s privacy interest, and the public interest must be significant.”
• “FBI cannot rely upon the vaguely worded categorical description it has provided, and must instead provide evidence from which the Court can deduce something of the nature of the techniques in question.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).