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

No. 94-1112.

30 F.3d 224 (1994)

CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 26, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kendrick L. Moxon, Los Angeles, CA, for appellant.

George B. Henderson, II, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Donald K. Stern, U.S. Atty., Boston, MA, was on brief, for appellee.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN and BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff Church of Scientology International brought this action under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552, to compel disclosure of documents held by the Department of Justice pertaining to the Church and related entities. The Department released about 1,000 pages in full or in part, but withheld more than 700 additional pages based on various FOIA exemptions. The Church objected to both the breadth of the...

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