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Judge orders state agency to pay legal fees for illegally withholding public records
From courier-journal.com:
FRANKFORT, KY. — In a sharply critical decision, a judge has ordered a state agency to pay $16,550 in fines and $56,663 in legal costs to three newspapers for illegally withholding public records involving child-abuse deaths and serious injuries.
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Man who won public records lawsuit must pay his own legal bills
From the Florida Times-Union:
A Jacksonville man who sued a city pension fund over public records violations isn’t entitled to recover the more than $30,000 he spent on legal fees, a judge has ruled.
Circuit Judge James H. Daniel ruled last week that Curtis Lee was entitled to $1,245 for other expenses he faced suing the Jacksonville Police and Fire Pension Fund, but could not get back his lawyer bills.
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Query over fees in Delaware Township yields $17K in legal charges
From nj.com:
DELAWARE TWP. — The $17,239 the township has spent over the past two years defending two lawsuits and a complaint is “inexcusable. There’s no reason to spend that kind of money for nothing,” says Dianne Rankin. “This was a big waste of money.”
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Court denies fee award in JFK assassination records suit
From Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press:
A U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. ruled that a journalist who sued the CIA under the federal Freedom of Information Act to release certain John F. Kennedy assassination records was not entitled to attorney’s fees.
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N.J. pays newspaper $40K in legal fees
From nj.com:
NEPTUNE — The state education department has paid more than $40,000 to cover the legal fees incurred by a New Jersey newspaper that successfully sued to gain access to department records.
The state said it denied access to the records because it planned to eventually investigate the erasures.
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