LaCedra v. Executive Office for United States Attorneys

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a FOIA request should be read to seek all documents covered by a catchall
• concluding that the agency’s interpretation of the request “reads the just-quoted phrase out of the letter” in a manner that renders the agency’s interpretation “simply implausible”
• holding that where requester sought records “pertaining to” a matter while listing specific records, the agency should not have limited its search to only the specific records
• holding that an enumerated list of records in a FOIA request did not limit the plaintiff’s general request for “a copy of all documents pertaining to my case”
• concluding that an agency is required to “liberally” construe a request when the “drafter of a FOIA request might reasonably seek all of a certain set of documents while nonetheless evincing a heightened interest in a specific subset thereof’
• requesting, in item 2f, “[djata and methods used for estimating 8-hr time weighted average levels for control subjects and exposed subjects”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).