Jarvik v. Central Intelligence Agency

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• finding that “a Vaughn index is not necessary if it ‘could cause the very harm that [the exemption] was intended to prevent,’ or ‘where there are no responsive records to describe in a Vaughn index[.]’”
• denying request to depose agency declarant to determine basis of his personal knowledge because, typically, the employee who supervises a FOIA search is deemed to have personal knowledge of the search

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).