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Guidry v. Comey, No. 16-12620, 2017 WL 2417865 (11th Cir. June 5, 2017) (per curiam)

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Guidry v. Comey, No. 16-12620, 2017 WL 2417865 (11th Cir. June 5, 2017) (per curiam)

Re:  Request for "manual keyboard search" for DNA records

Disposition:  Affirming district court's grant of government's motion for summary judgment

  • Procedural Requirements, Searching for Responsive Records:  The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit holds that "the district court properly granted summary judgment in the Director's favor because there was no genuine dispute of material fact regarding the propriety of [the requester's] FOIA request."  "[The requester] presented no evidence to rebut the Director's evidence that the request for a 'manual keyboard search' would create a new record, rather than merely retrieving existing records, and thus fell outside of the scope of a proper FOIA request."
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Court of Appeals opinions
Procedural Requirements, Searching for Responsive Records
Updated December 14, 2021