Maydak v. U.S. Department of Justice

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the FOIA “specifically excludes from its coverage ‘the courts of the United States.’”
• faulting agency for failing to identify the decision or policy to which the withheld information purportedly contributed and explain how it fit into the deliberative process
• “Plaintiffs request was no more than a series of questions or requests for information that went beyond the scope of the FOIA.”
• “For records held by a field office of the [FBI] ..., however, you must write directly to that ... field office address.”
• agency’s submissions “too conclusory, vague and sweeping to support summary judgment” where agency relied on multiple exceptions to justify withholding information, but failed to match the withheld information with the claimed exemption and explain how the exemption applied
• agency’s submissions “too conclusory, vague and sweeping to support summary judgment” where agency relied on multiple exceptions to justify withholding information, but failed to match the withheld information with the claimed exemption and explain how the exemption applied

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).