diff --git a/search-app/src/cmr/search/api/tags.clj b/search-app/src/cmr/search/api/tags.clj
index e5c77a6c9d..65e187f5f2 100644
--- a/search-app/src/cmr/search/api/tags.clj
+++ b/search-app/src/cmr/search/api/tags.clj
@@ -18,15 +18,15 @@
   [headers]
   (mt/extract-header-mime-type #{mt/json} headers "content-type" true))
 
-(defn- all-data-contain-errors?
-  "Whether all entries in data contain errors."
+(defn- has-error?
+  "Whether there's an error in [data]."
   [data]
-  (not (some #(nil? (:errors %)) data)))
+  (some #(contains? % :errors) data))
 
 (defn tag-api-response
   "Creates a successful tag response with the given data response"
   ([data]
-   (if (all-data-contain-errors? data)
+   (if (has-error? data)
      (tag-api-response 400 data)
      (tag-api-response 200 data)))
   ([status-code data]