Michael C. Harrington, a labor lawyer at Murtha Cullina, took on formidable adversaries when he began attempting to use the Freedom of Information Act to get email correspondence between lawyer-lobbyist Tom Ritter and his client, the Connecticut Resource Recovery Authority.
Ritter is the former speaker of the House of Representatives, and a Hartford political power player. Harrington wanted emails and other communications between the CRRA and Ritter, in his role as its community liaison, helping it dispose of trash to steam incinerator ash and deal with landfill closings.
