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Church of Scientology of California v. United States Department of the Army

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Overruled in part
Court
Ninth Circuit
Citation
611 F.2d 738
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
58 of 58
Citing cases (total)
58
Treatment dates
2016
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Church of Scientology of California v. United States Department of the Army was overruled in part by Animal Legal Defense Fund v. U.S. Food & Drug Administration. The Ninth Circuit sitting en banc replaced its two-step appellate standard for FOIA summary judgments with de novo review.
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The confirmed treatment is listed below; it concerns the review standard rather than the decision’s substantive exemption or federal-comity holdings. All 58 flagged citations have been read.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

58 later cases cite Church of Scientology of California v. United States Department of the Army; 58 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The Ninth Circuit sitting en banc overruled Church of Scientology’s two-step standard for reviewing summary judgments in FOIA cases and required de novo review.

    Animal Legal Defense Fund v. U.S. Food & Drug Administration · Ninth Circuit (en banc) · filed

    Accordingly, we adopt a de novo standard of review for summary judgment decisions in FOIA cases. Church of Scientology, 611 F.2d at 743, and our other decisions to the contrary are overruled.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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