People for the American Way Foundation v. United States Department of Justice

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• searching 44,000 files manually and expending at least 25,000 hours of work to do so would be unduly burdensome
• holding plaintiff may narrow request even without defendant's agreement
• defendant justified in objecting under Forsham to creation of list if it “was not previously created or obtained by the agency”
• “[T]he government was a signatory to several Joint Status Reports during the course of this litigation, in which the parties represented—unequivocally—that the FOIA request had been narrowed.”
• “There is no authority . . . for the government’s suggestion that its consent is required in order to effectuate a requester’s reduction of its own FOIA request.”
• \Electronic database searches are thus not regarded as involving the creation of new records.\ (quoting Schladetsch v. HUD , No. 99-0175, 2000 WL 33372125 , at (D.D.C. Apr. 4, 2000) )

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