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ACLU seeking the truth about the CIA’s detainee abuses
Group wants cost info on Obama’s daughter’s spring break trip
From LegalNewsline.com:
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – A government watchdog group has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Secret Service to determine how much taxpayer money was spent on security for President Barack Obama’s daughter’s spring break trip to Mexico.
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Judges: N.J.’s open public records law doesn’t apply to Port Authority
From NorthJersey.com:
A two-judge panel ruled Thursday that the New Jersey’s open public records law does not apply to the Port Authority. The appellate judges affirmed a trial judge’s decision that the state doesn’t have the right to unilaterally impose a law on a bistate agency that also serves New York.
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Delaware Chancery Court appeals ban on private arbitration
From The News Journal:
WILMINGTON – The Delaware Court of Chancery is asking the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate its controversial private arbitration process that critics have called a “secret court.”
Attorneys representing Chancery Court filed a notice of appeal with the U.S. District Court in Wilmington today. The one paragraph notice did not outline the reasons for the appeal.
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Mo. attorney general agrees that Franklin County Commission follows sunshine laws
From emissourian.com:
The Missouri attorney general’s office recently issued an opinion which Franklin County officials say “vindicates” them from a complaint filed by a former candidate for county office.
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City to appeal ruling that it has to turn over police personnel records to newspaper
From The Republic:
OWENSBORO, Ky. — An open records dispute between city officials in Owensboro and the town’s newspaper is headed to the Kentucky Court of Appeals.
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SEIU Sues Jackson Health, CEO Carlos Migoya For Public Records
From Becker’s Hospital Review:
Service Employees International Union Local 1991 has sued Miami’s Jackson Health System and CEO Carlos Migoya over public record requests about hospital business, according to a South Florida Business Journal report.
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Education dept. again turning down records request
From NECN.com:
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — After saying last August that a public records request would be fulfilled, Louisiana’s education department is again refusing to provide The Associated Press with records on how schools were chosen to participate in Gov. Bobby Jindal’s new statewide voucher program.
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Englewood Cliffs council looks into whether increasing cost of public records is legal
From North Jersey:
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS – Nearly three weeks after the borough council took steps to raise the cost of an open records request from 5 to 25 cents a page, residents are still paying the lower rate for copies of public records while the council finds out if the increase is legal.
“The next step is to find out if we can do it,” Council President Joseph Favaro said Wednesday.
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