Liberation Newspaper v. U.S. Department of State

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• holding that where the agency has used reasonable methods in conducting a search for responsive documents, \the Court will not second guess\ whether other methods \might have been superior\
• finding that agency “crafted a list of search terms reasonably designed to lead to the information requested”—specifically, contracts regarding payments to certain journalists
• noting that such results “would fall outside the scope of Plaintiff’s FOIA request”
• “Where, the agency’s search terms are reasonable, the Court will not second guess the agency regarding whether other search terms might have been superior.”
• “Where the agency’s search terms are reasonable, the Court will not second guess the agency regarding whether other search terms might have been superior.”
• “Where the agency’s search terms are reasonable, the Court will not second guess the agency regarding whether other search terms might have been superior.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).