Church of Scientology of California v. Gabriel Cazares

How courts have described this case

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• upholding award of attorney’s fees because “there was no material, admissible evidence to support [the plaintiffs] civil rights claim”
• distinguishing McRae and finding church to have standing under the third Hunt prong to bring a free exercise claim on behalf of its members
• allowing organization to pursue § 1983 claim based on injuries to organization’s members without substantive discussion
• reviewing decisions determining scope and effect of discovery for abuse of discretion
• summary judgment matter- holding that statement which conveys no defamatory meaning cannot be made libelous by imputation of illogical and attenuated inferences
• church had standing to assert free exercise rights of its membership in civil rights suit alleging town mayor had unlawfully harassed church and its members

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).