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Court opinion issued Oct. 12, 2018

Gov't Accountability Project v. DHS (D.D.C.) -- finding that agency’s search was inadequate because it relied on too few keywords and excluded obvious synonyms; adopting plaintiff’s metaphor that “FOIA requests are not a game of Battleship. The requester should not have to score a direct hit on the records sought based on the precise phrasing of his request.”

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