Flowers v. Internal Revenue Service

How courts have described this case

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• noting that while plaintiff “may be unhappy with the search results,” that provides no grounds to use FOIA discovery for a fishing expedition
• commenting that requester “cannot use FOIA discovery to conduct an investigation into the IRS’ rationale for her audit”
• finding that the Internal Revenue Service conducted an adequate search for records by providing a \non-suspect reason for the destruction\ of documents by submitting \published document-retention schedules\
• finding that the Internal Revenue Service conducted an adequate search for records by providing a “non-suspect reason for the destruction” of documents by submitting “published document-retention schedules”
• approving the agency’s conduct when “the federal document-retention machinery lumbered forward on schedule, and the plaintiffs file was. destroyed” during, a period after the plaintiff filed a FOIA request but before the plaintiff corrected procedural errors with that request

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).