FOIA Advisor

Court opinion issued Jan. 19, 2023

Allan BlutsteinComment

Judicial Watch, Inc. v. HHS (D.D.C.) -- finding that: (1) plaintiff’s request for various records pertaining to COVID-19 vaccine was reasonably described; (2) agency did not sufficiently explain how a search would be unduly burdensome, but encouraging plaintiff to narrow its “extraordinarily broad” request that would require “unusually protracted agency review.”

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