American Small Business League v. United States Small Business Administration

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

AMERICAN SMALL BUSINESS Case No. 22-cv-03325-VC

LEAGUE,

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING THE UNITED

STATES SMALL BUSINESS

v. ADMINISTRATION'S MOTION FOR

SUMMARY JUDGMENT; DENYING

UNITED STATES SMALL BUSINESS THE AMERICAN SMALL BUSINESS

ADMINISTRATION, LEAGUE'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY

JUDGMENT

Defendant. Re: Dkt. Nos. 34,

The Small Business Administration’s motion for summary judgment is granted. The SBA located and produced the records in its possession that were responsive to the American Small Business League’s original request. It did so in a .csv file. It is undisputed that ASBL currently has access to the information contained in that .csv file. No further relief is warranted under the Freedom of Information Act. The SBA is not obligated to request the original records from the General Services Administration nor to perform a search of the GSA’s records for any information that the SBA does not itself maintain: an agency is only obligated to produce records that are in its possession. Rojas v. Federal Aviation Administration, 989 F. 3d…