ALBANY – A six-year battle to unveil former Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s private emails is heading for a showdown in an Albany courtroom, with Spitzer claiming that neither the public nor his adversaries in a long-running dispute have any right to his personal communications.

Spitzer, who has said for years either that there were no private emails in which he conducted state business, or at least none responsive to a Freedom of Information Law demand by a businessman he accused of civil fraud, argued in an 84-page motion Friday that as a private citizen he is not covered by FOIL.

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