diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 779d9fc8..a0db1b71 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
 - fix: correct wrong dict key in VMRay _compute_monitor_threads assertion (used thread_id instead of process_id) @williballenthin
 fix: replace assert with isinstance guard in get_callee for invalid MethodSpec tokens @williballenthin
 - fix: replace assert with isinstance guard in get_callee for invalid MethodSpec tokens @williballenthin
+- fix: remove duplicate Rule.from_yaml call in test_scope_instruction_description @williballenthin (SURF-79)
 - fix: remove unused imports of capa.helpers, capa.features.basicblock, and redundant bare capa.features.extractors.base_extractor from test_freeze_dynamic.py @williballenthin (SURF-78)
 - fix: replace capa.main.find_capabilities with capa.capabilities.common.find_capabilities in test_com_feature_matching to avoid implicit transitive import dependency @williballenthin (SURF-77)
 - fix: correct test_json_meta to iterate list of function dicts and use correct address format for matched_basic_blocks assertion @williballenthin (SURF-76)
diff --git a/tests/test_rules_insn_scope.py b/tests/test_rules_insn_scope.py
index 9db9c699..da3316d3 100644
--- a/tests/test_rules_insn_scope.py
+++ b/tests/test_rules_insn_scope.py
@@ -118,21 +118,3 @@ def test_scope_instruction_description():
                       - os: windows
             """)
     )
-
-    capa.rules.Rule.from_yaml(
-        textwrap.dedent("""
-            rule:
-                meta:
-                    name: test rule
-                    scopes:
-                        static: function
-                        dynamic: process
-                features:
-                  - and:
-                    - instruction:
-                      - description: foo
-                      - mnemonic: mov
-                      - arch: i386
-                      - os: windows
-            """)
-    )