Forsham v. Harris

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a federal grantee was not an agency under the Freedom of Information Act
• noting that the “Freedom of Information Act deals with ‘agency records,’ not information in the abstract”
• recognizing FOIA “deals with agency records, not information in the abstract” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• stating that, although Congress, in enacting FOIA, “undoubtedly sought to expand public rights of access to Government information,” it “limited access to ‘agency records’” (quoting 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4)(B))
• holding that records of federal grantees were not “agency records” even though the agency relied on reports based on this data, and the agency had a “right of access to the data, and a right if it so chooses to obtain permanent custody of the [grantees’] records”
• discussing the Grant Act in deciding the proper treatment of federal grantees under the Freedom of Information Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).