Garcia v. United States Department of Justice, Office of Information & Privacy

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 “Acting Chief of the Litigation Unit which processes FOIA requests [is] the appropriate individual to describe the search for responsive documents in this case”
• noting that once an agency demonstrates that it has conducted a “reasonable search for relevant documents,” the agency “has fulfilled its obligations under FOIA”
• noting that once an agency demonstrates that it has conducted a “reasonable search for relevant documents,” the agency “has fulfilled its obligations under FOIA”
• affirming an agency’s withholding under Exemption 7(F) of the identities of individuals who were FBI agents conducting an investigation as well as third parties who provided information to the FBI
• information identifying government agents, private citizens and third parties who participated in investigation of FOIA plaintiff
• “Speculation that other documents exist, without more, does not undermine the finding that the agency conducted a reasonable search.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).