Eric Davin v. United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation

How later courts described this case

• explaining that under the FOIA, before considering whether requested records were correctly determined to be exempt from disclosure, a reviewing court must first examine “ ‘whether the [withholding entity’s] explanation was full and specific enough to afford the FOIA requester a meaningful opportunity to contest, and the district court an adequate foundation to review, the soundness of the withholding.’ ” (quoting McDonnell v. U.S., 4 F.3d 1227, 1242 (3d Cir. 1993))
• explaining that “the agency’s explanation [must be] full and specific enough to afford the FOIA requester a meaningful opportunity to contest, and the district court an adequate foundation to review, the soundness of the withholding” (quoting McDonnell v. United States, 4 F.3d 1227, 1242 (3d Cir. 1993))
• concluding that the FBI “failed to meet its burden” because the evidence submitted did not “provide any detail concerning the supposed law enforcement activities that generated each of the documents”
• describing application of 7(C) as “a de novo balancing test, weighing the privacy interest and the extent to which it is invaded on the one hand, against the public benefit that would result from disclosure, on the other’

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