Public Citizen, Inc. v. Department of Education

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• concluding that the agency had not shown that searching 25,000 paper files “would be unduly burdensome”
• concluding agency offered insufficient specificity to find that searching 25,000 paper files would be unduly burdensome
• finding insufficient an affidavit stating that a search would be “costly and take many hours to complete” and would require the interstate transfer of files or staff
• ordering a search of 25,000 files for irregularly kept data, despite the need for manual review
• finding a search inadequate where the database was so unreliable that the agency could not reasonably expect to find the requested information
• rejecting agency’s claim that requested search was unreasonably burdensome “[w]ithout more specification as to why a search certain to turn up responsive documents would be unduly burdensome”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).