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By Mason Lawlor | April 24, 2024
"She was seeking through her Petition to vindicate her right to the public records," Tennessee Court of Appeals Judge Jeffrey Usman said. "In general, this is the definition of a proper purpose, and there does not appear to be any dispute that Ms. Reguli genuinely wanted to obtain these public records which she reasonably believed she had a legal right to access."
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By Colleen Murphy | April 18, 2024
"Although I wish the dissent's reasoning had prevailed, what seems clear is that when CPANJ's records are in the hands of a prosecutor or other public agency, they can likely still be obtained that way," CJ Griffin, director of the Justice Gary S. Stein Public Interest Center at Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, said in a statement emailed to the Law Journal. "It will just take much more time and effort to track down which of the 21 prosecutor offices holds a particular document."
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By Jessica Cooper | March 28, 2024
A member of the Georgia First Amendment Foundation's Legislative Watch team writes that, by automating the sealing of first-offender case records, House Bill 909 removes judicial discretion and hides from Georgians those first-offender cases where public interest should prevail.
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By Riley Brennan | March 15, 2024
This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
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By Colleen Murphy | February 8, 2024
"My concern is that, if I do vote for you, which I would like to do based on your history as a lawyer, based on your personality, and based on your statements, I am afraid I am sending a message to future judiciary committees that I am disrespecting tradition or the statute," Sen. Jon Bramnick said to one of the three nominees during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting Thursday.
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By Cheryl Miller | October 5, 2023
When it comes to legalizing psychedelics, "There's actually lots of approaches to be tried," said Eric Munevar, campaign director for the California Psilocybin Initiative 2024. "You want pressure coming from all sides of society on something like this."
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By Adolfo Pesquera | August 16, 2023
"I applaud the legislature for recognizing the need to protect the public servants who work in court facilities, and I fully support this measure to keep those who help whose duties are performed in the public administration of justice, as well as their family members, safe," Travis County 250th District Judge Karin Crump said.
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By Allison Dunn | August 15, 2023
"Here, the documents and communications at issue were shared by the AGO with the AGOs of other states in an effort to unify its strategy and conserve resources with regard to environmental litigation that the AGO has considered pursuing or predicted defending against. The very nature of disclosing these documents to the chief law enforcement officer in the respective state only bolsters that these documents were prepared in anticipation of litigation," Associate Justice Nancy J. Waples wrote on behalf of the court.
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By Chris O'Malley | August 14, 2023
The attorney argues that being linked to the report, which stems from 20 FDA site visits in the spring of 2022, could cause reputational harm and derail the attorney's career.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | July 3, 2023
"The problem, as I see it, is not the standard, but the court's loose application of it to the record on appeal, which renders the narrow-construction mandate essentially tokenistic," Justice John Phillip Devine wrote in the dissent.
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