Stephanie A. Patterson v. Internal Revenue Service

How courts have described this case

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• “According to the legislative history, the distinction in the statutory language “was intended to provide somewhat broader protection for privacy interests under Exemption 7(C) than normally afforded under Exemption 6.”
• rejecting district court’s approval of agency’s withholding and noting within the analysis of Exemption 6 that an agency’s “unwritten law” is “exactly the type of information the FOIA is designed to disclose”
• “[T]o avert summary judgment, the requester must show some reason to think that the document would have turned up if the agency had looked for it.”
• “[T]o avert summary judgment, the requester must show some reason to think that the document would have turned up if the agency had looked for it.”
• request for all materials related to IRS’s investigation of requester
• addressing withholding of records claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).