North v. DOJ, No. 08-1439, 2014 WL 4079927 (D.D.C. Aug. 19, 2014) (Kollar-Kotelly, J.)

North v. DOJ, No. 08-1439, 2014 WL 4079927 (D.D.C. Aug. 19, 2014) (Kollar-Kotelly, J.)

Re: Request for records concerning purported DEA informant

Disposition: Denying plaintiff's second motion for reconsideration

• Litigation Considerations, Adequacy of Search:  The court holds that "[t]he fact that the DEA averred that it found three criminal investigative files containing information about Plaintiff does not necessarily suggest that those files contained documents that were responsive to Plaintiff's FOIA request, which specifically requested documents referencing Plaintiff and [the alleged informant]."  The court further holds that "even though the DEA did not have enough information to positively identify the [alleged informant] for whom the DEA located files as the [alleged informant] identified by Plaintiff, the DEA's search looked at the files associated with all [individuals with the same name as the alleged informant] and found that none of them also referenced or otherwise corresponded with Plaintiff."