The Founding Church of Scientology of Washington, D.C., Inc. v. William French Smith, Attorney General of the United States

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• finding that application of exemption 2 “to trivial administrative matters of no genuine public interest [is] . . . automatic”
• affirming district court's judgment that disclosure of \administrative handling instructions\ \would risk circumvention of federal statutes\
• finding low 2 exemption automatically covers trivial administrative matters of no genuine 15 public interest
• finding exemption of low 2 material that merely relates to trivial administrative matters of no genuine public interest to be “automatic”
• affirming district court’s judgment that disclosure of “administrative handling instructions” ”would risk circum- vention of federal statutes”
• in camera review appropriate when needed “to make a responsible ... determination on the claims of exemption” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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