Cannady v. EOUSA (D.D.C.) -- holding that agency properly invoked Exemption 7(C) to withhold records concerning plaintiff’s criminal co-defendant, specifically inventories of items seized from co-defendant and notes of interviews between the FBI and co-defendant.
Gun Owners of Am. v. FBI (D.D.C.) -- ruling that: (1) FBI properly denied two requests as unreasonably described because plaintiff’s first request embedded “a fundamental uncertainty about whose communications [were] requested,” and its second request sought “all documents related to a certain question without providing further limitations or providing the FBI with a basis to narrow its search”; and (2) plaintiff’s remaining request was reasonably described “despite using the word ‘involving’ due to its inclusion of a discrete state agency whose communications are requested, specific search terms, explicit temporal parameters, and sufficient basis for the agency to narrow which custodians it must search to find responsive records.”
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