Church of Scientology International v. United States Department of Justice

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that the agency would have “to revise its submissions” after its Vaughn index was rejected
• vacating district court’s decision because of reliance on inadequate Vaughn index, remanding case, and suggesting options
• “We believe that, at a minimum, an agency seeking to withhold a document in its entirety under this exemption must identify the litigation for which it was created (either by name or through factual description
• “[The agency] must supply a relatively detailed justification, specifically identifying the reasons why a particular exemption is relevant and correlating those claims with the particular part of a withheld document to which they apply.” (internal quotation marks and emphasis omitted)
• agency obligated to perform reasonable search for responsive documents
• stating FOIA policy and purpose and citing cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).