When Georgia’s attorney general weighed in this week with a “neutral” brief in the public records fight now before the Supreme Court of Georgia, he joined 11 organizations that have squared off with competing briefs warning of wide-reaching consequences regardless of which way the high court may rule.
The Georgia Press Association, the Georgia First Amendment Foundation, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and two of the state’s major newspapers—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Savannah Morning News—are backing a petition by Jones Day partner Kendrick Smith to reverse lower courts that have, so far, denied him access to records he long has sought from Atlanta’s Northside Hospital.
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