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  • Judicial Watch v. Univ. of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2022-06-28
    Practice Area: Public Records
    Industry: Education | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore A. Kittila, William E. Green, Jr., Halloran Farkas + Kittila LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
    for defendant: William E. Manning, James D. Taylor, Jr., Marisa R. DeFeo, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
    Case Number: D69866

    Public university's burden of proof to establish diligent search for responsive records required identifying which specific parties were consulted for responsive records and explaining how state funds were not used to acquire, curate, or manage the sought-after records.

  • Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Univ. of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2021-12-21
    Practice Area: Public Records
    Industry: Education
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore A. Kittila, William E. Green, Jr., Halloran Farkas + Kittila LLP, Wilmington, DE for Appellants.
    for defendant: William E. Manning, James D. Taylor, Jr., Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.
    Case Number: D69650

    The court agreed with the Superior Court that the papers requested by appellants under the Freedom of Information Act were not public records where the content of the papers did not relate to the expenditure of public funds.

  • Judicial Watch Inc. v. Delaware Dep't of Justice

    Publication Date: 2021-01-20
    Practice Area: Public Records
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore A. Kittila, William E. Green, Jr., Halloran Farkas + Kittila LLP, Wilmington, DE for petitioners.
    for defendant: William E. Manning, James D. Taylor, Jr., Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Wilmington, DE for respondent.
    Case Number: D69267

    The Freedom of Information Act did not give petitioners access to library patron logs or unprocessed rec-ords housed at a university library.

  • Partner Inv., L.P. v. Theranos, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-05-09
    Practice Area: Public Records
    Industry: Biotechnology
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Greg P. Williams for defendants Holmes and Theranos.
    for defendant: na
    Case Number: D68138

    A non-party was not entitled to obtain access to deposition videos where the parties opted to file only transcript excerpts of that deposition with the court.