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MAKTAB TARIGHE OVEYSSI SHAH MAGHSOUDI v. KIANFAR

No. 96-15002.

179 F.3d 1244 (1999)

MAKTAB TARIGHE OVEYSSI SHAH MAGHSOUDI, INC.; Nader Angha, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Ali KIANFAR; Nahid Kianfar; International Association of Sufism, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided June 17, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul L. Hoffman, Bostwick & Hoffman, Santa Monica, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Curtis E.A. Karnow, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, San Francisco, California, for the defendants-appellees.

Before: CHOY, CANBY, and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.

CANBY, Circuit Judge:

This case presents the question whether a civil court can decide this dispute over the rights to intellectual property of a religious order without violating the First Amendment. We conclude that it can, and accordingly reverse the district court's dismissal of the complaint.

Maktab Tarighe Oveyssi Shah Maghsoudi, Inc. ("Shah Maghsoudi"), the corporate embodiment of an ancient Sufi Order, and...

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