Kowal v. DOJ (D.D.C.) -- deciding that: (1) Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives conducted reasonable search for records concerning plaintiff’s death-row client and properly withheld third-party records pursuant to Exemption7(C); and (2) FBI also performed adequate search, but its Vaughn Index did not provide court with sufficient information to evaluate agency’s withholdings.
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