Washington v. Capital Cab Cooperative Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “using a query to search for and extract a particular arrangement or subset of data already maintained in an agency’s database does not amount to the creation of a new record”
• stating that “news media organizations are precisely the 10 sort of ‘representative[s] of the public’ through which individuals and entities commonly 11 distribute information to the public”
• noting that the Rider “permits publication of ‘statistical aggregate data’ 13 and not just statistical reports; “[t]he word ‘data’ does not carry an inference of formal 14 dissemination”
• reflecting that the Ninth Circuit has cited favorably to this FOIA guidebook
• stating that “[w]e have an insufficiently developed record from which to determine 13 with any certainty whether the information CIR seeks could be produced by a reasonable search of 14 the FTS database or would require more significant analysis”
• “Although FOIA requires federal agencies to make 14 ‘reasonable efforts to search for’ the records requested, 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(3)(C), it does not 15 require agencies to create new records.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).