Law school clinics at Rutgers—The State University operate like private law firms and so do not have to open their case files to their legal adversaries or to the public, the New Jersey Supreme Court held on Thursday.

The court turned aside an attempt by a litigant to use the Open Public Records Act to wrest documents from the Rutgers Environmental Law Clinic, the opposing counsel, on the theory that Rutgers is part of the state government.

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