St. Michael's Convalescent Hospital v. The State Of California

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the definition of “agency” under 21 FOIA “does not encompass state agencies or bodies”
• “The FOIA, generally, provides for the mandatory disclosure of information held by federal agencies, unless the requested material is exempt from mandatory disclosure.”
• complaint may be amended under Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a) when no answer has been filed and while motion to dismiss is pending
• “[T]he Privacy Act appl[ies] only to 25 ‘agencies’ as that term is defined under . . . 5 U.S.C. s 552(e). Under [this] definition[], ‘agency’ 26 does not encompass state agencies or bodies.”
• “[T]he Privacy Act appl[ies] only to 7 ‘agencies’ as that term is defined under . . . 5 U.S.C. s 552(e). Under [this] definition[], ‘agency’ 8 does not encompass state agencies or bodies.”
• federal FOIA does not encompass state agencies 25 or bodies

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).