Keys v. Department of Homeland Security

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that an agency had “ignored its responsibilities under FOIA” by failing to follow up with two other agencies to which it had referred records while eleven months passed between the referral and the eventual disclosure of the documents
• holding agency receiving FOIA request “not 10 absolved of its obligations under FOIA when it refers the documents elsewhere”
• “Because the agency 22 who received the FOIA request . . . is the agency ultimately responsible for responding to the request, the agency is not absolved of its obligations under FOIA when it refers the documents elsewhere.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).