The Court of Appeals recently decided a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) case of keen interest to historians and the press involving access to records of the Board of Education’s decades-long “red scare” investigations of teachers. The court held that the identities of individuals who had been named in interviews could not be redacted. However the identities of interviewees who had been promised confidentiality could be redacted to protect their privacy, at least while they and their children are alive.
In an employment action, a divided court (5-2) held that a hedge fund was free to fire a compliance officer who had confronted the fund’s CEO about alleged improper conduct because the officer was an at-will employee.
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