White v. Exec. Office of U.S. Attorneys (S.D. Ill. 2020) -- ruling that: (1) FBI’s processing rate of 500 pages per month was reasonable given the “large volume and complexity” of responding to plaintiff’s requests and because plaintiff “failed to articulate any real public interest in the records he seeks”; (2) FBI properly refused to confirm or deny existence of records pertaining to third parties pursuant to Exemptions 6 and 7(C); (3) FBI properly refused to confirm or deny existence of alleged informants pursuant to Exemptions 7(D) and 7(E); (4) plaintiff failed to exhaust his administrative remedies on requests that he either failed to reasonably describe or failed to appeal; (5) FBI did not improperly withhold records that Federal Bureau of Prisons refused to accept delivery of due to security concerns; and (6) plaintiff was not entitled to summary judgment on request for records withheld pursuant to Exemption 7(A) because FBI agreed to recheck the request when the status of the investigation is likely to have changed to closed; and (7) FBI performed adequate searches on remaining requests.
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