Public bodies can’t refuse to release records by broad assertions of attorney-client privilege and instead must turn over sufficiently detailed logs, a state appeals court held on Monday.
Jersey City’s “blanket designation of certain documents as subject to attorney-client privilege” solely because they related to a controversial real estate project at the heart of the records dispute was erroneous, the Appellate Division held in Hyman v. City of Jersey City, A-0789-10.
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