Topic: if the requester produces countervailing evidence placing t… · Go Syfert
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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 20 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Spannaus v. Central Intelligence Agency.

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1 Spannaus v. Central Intelligence Agency Anchor
dcd · 1993
green “if the requester produces countervailing evidence placing the sufficiency of the identification or retrieval procedures genuinely in issue, summary judgment is inappropriate.” 16
2 Barnard v. Department of Homeland Security
dcd · 2008
green “a declarant in a foia case satisfies the personal knowledge requirement in rule 56(e) if in his declaration, he attests to his personal knowledge of the procedures used in handling a foia request and his familiarity with the documents in question” 4

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