The Founding Church of Scientology of Washington, D. C., Inc. v. National Security Agency

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• holding that the district court may rely on agency affidavits as long as they are “relatively detailed[,] ... nonconelusory and submitted in good faith”
• holding that the district court may rely on agency affidavits as long as they are “relatively detailed[,] . . . nonconclusory and submitted in good faith”
• holding that the district court may rely on agency affidavits as long as they are “relatively detailed . . . nonconclusory and submitted in good faith”
• holding that the defendant “must prove that each document that falls within the class requested either has been produced, is unidentifiable, or is wholly exempt from the Act's inspection requirements”
• explaining that exemption 7(E) does not protect “routine techniques and procedures already well known to the public”
• clarifying that “the competence of any records-search is a matter dependent upon the circumstances of the case” and the “caliber” of the search

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).