Merrill Lynch Credit Corp. v. Costello

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that agencies, not advisory committees, are subject to FOIA
• FOIA applies only to record created or obtained by agency \in the course of doing its work\
• “a government agency cannot circumvent FOIA by transferring physical possession of its records to a warehouse or like bailee”
• FOIA applies only to record created or obtained by agency “in the course of doing its work”
• Federal Free dom o'f Information Act case in which the D.C. Circuit commented that “ [t] he only claim ascertainable in this FOIA action is the right of any member of the public, motivated by whatever reasons. . . . Any showing of need or interest is irrelevant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).