Walsh v. New London Hospital

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that agencies are “not required, by FOIA or by any other statute, to dig out all the information that might exist, in whatever form or place it might be found, and to create a document that answers plaintiffs question”
• “FOIA provides access to existing records but does not establish a research service[;] FOIA entitles citizens to the disclosure of documents, but it does not oblige the government to answer their questions.”
• “The Justice Department is not required, by FOIA or by any other statute, to dig out all the information that might exist, in whatever form or place it might be found, and to create a document that answers plaintiffs question.”
• request asking Department of Justice for the “number of Special Assistant United States Attorneys that were state and local prosecutors” for different periods of time improper under FOIA; “FOIA provides access to existing records but does not establish a research service”
• “The Justice Department is not required, by FOIA or by any other statute, to dig out all the information that might exist, in whatever form or place it might be found, and to create a document that answers plaintiff’s question.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).