Hemenway v. Hughes

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the agency’s duty to construe FOIA requests liberally compels a broad interpretation of the records requested, even if a narrower reading is also reasonable
• finding that the agency’s duty to construe federal Freedom of Information Act requests liberally compelled a broad interpretation of the records requested, even if a narrower reading was also reasonable
• stating that an agency is “not to read [a FOIA] request so strictly that the requester is denied information the agency well knows exists in its files, albeit in a different form from that anticipated by the requester”
• “[T]he agency must be careful not to read the request so strictly that the requester is denied information the agency well knows exists[.]”
• “[T]he agency must be careful not to read the request so strictly that the requester is denied information the agency well knows exists in its files, albeit in a different form 21 from that anticipated by the requester.”
• construing federal Freedom of Information Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).