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By Charles Toutant | June 20, 2017
The Supreme Court of New Jersey has ruled that individual fields of data from electronically stored public records are subject to disclosure under the Open Public Records Act.
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By Andrew Denney | June 19, 2017
Some in the legal community can neither confirm nor deny that the New York City Police Department's policy of using the so-called Glomar doctrine as an exemption to open records requests is a good thing. But all can agree that the CIA-coined nonanswer to requests for information that was typically used in situations involving matters of national security has seen wider use in recent years.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 16, 2017
OOR properly denied petitioner's RTKL request to the DOC for the "written judgment of sentence order" containing the judge's signature because the DOC did not have the document and petitioner's appeal of the OOR final determination explicitly stated that it was not challenging the OOR's denial but instead sought relief outside the RTKL by trying to challenge the legality of his detention. Affirmed.
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By Michael Booth | June 16, 2017
A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that Gov. Chris Christie does not have to turn over correspondence with a nonprofit group that assisted with his unsuccessful presidential bid.
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By R. Robin McDonald | June 16, 2017
The Justice Department submitted the manual under a provisional seal because there may be privileged or sensitive information in it.
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By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | June 16, 2017
The New York Times has gone to court to try to get copies of documents created by fired FBI director James Comey after his conversations with President Donald Trump.
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By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | June 12, 2017
Court Denies Attorney's Petition to Produce Documents of NYPD Administrative Summaries
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 2, 2017
OOR erred in holding that a "well site" was not an "industrial plant" and court found that investigative reports pertaining to well sites were public records in a RTKL action but OOR correctly held that DEP met its burden of showing that certain records were exempt under the attorney-client privilege and/or work product doctrine, records relating to the location of radioactive material were exempt under public safety and security concerns, other documents were exempt under trade secret and confidential information, the notes and working papers, internal predecisional deliberation and noncriminal investigation exemptions. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
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By Greg Land | May 30, 2017
The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday sidestepped an opportunity to clarify whether a court reporter's backup tapes of courtroom proceedings may be copied, ruling against a law firm's efforts to force their disclosure through a lawsuit against a Superior Court judge and court reporter.
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By Andrew Denney | May 22, 2017
The New York City Police Department's changing excuses for not turning over an accounting of the amount of property seized from arrestees "just do not make sense," a Manhattan judge said in denying the department's motion to dismiss an open records suit.
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