CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY v. U. S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE

No. 76-2506.

612 F.2d 417 (1979)

CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA, A non-profit corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, William B. Saxbe, Attorney General of the United States; Drug Enforcement Administration, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 30, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe Thrasher, Cameron, Shervey & Thrasher, Rice Lake, Wis., for plaintiff-appellant.

Leonard Schaitman, Washington, D. C., on brief; Paul Blankenstein, Washington, D. C., for defendants-appellees.

Before BARNES, WALLACE and TANG, Circuit Judges.


BARNES, Senior Circuit Judge.

Church of Scientology of California ("CSC") appeals the district court's upholding of the Drug Enforcement Administration's ("DEA")1 decision not to disclose certain documents sought by CSC under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. § 552. The main issue on appeal is the scope of the term "confidential source" as used in the 7(D) exemption of the...

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