Hammond v. DOD (D.D.C.) -- finding that: (1) Walter Reed National Military Medical Center performed “reasonable and adequate” searches in response to plaintiff’s multiple requests, noting that plaintiff was not “entitled to a search of his own choosing”; (2) agency properly invoked Exemption 6 to withhold names of individuals who requested their own medical records; (3) plaintiff was not entitled to injunctive relief based on agency’s use of batched FOIA tracking numbers.
Cole v. Copan (D.D.C.) -- adopting in part and denying in part magistrate’s recommendations and holding that: (1) FEMA and NIST did not adequately explain how it searched for requested records concerning the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings on September 11, 2001; (2) plaintiff was entitled to limited discovery from FEMA concerning 490,000 pages of WTC-related records stored at NARA, but that FEMA sufficiently explained discrepancy as to whether certain missing records might be in its regional office’s local archives.
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