Nance v. Federal Bureau of Investigation

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• holding that “whether a search is adequate is determined by methods, not results . . . [and an] agency’s failure to locate . . . specific responsive document[s] will not, on its own, render an 21 otherwise reasonable search inadequate.”
• “FOIA does not require agencies to create documents, answer questions, or explain what may have happened to documents that may have existed at one point but are no longer in the agency's possession”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).