A lawyer representing a woman whose husband committed suicide while incarcerated was not entitled to wide latitude in Open Public Records Act requests for information about county jail procedures and security, a New Jersey appeals court has ruled.
And since attorney Donald Burke only partially succeeded in his document requests, a trial judge justifiably slashed his $52,275 fee request to $4,500, the court said on Nov. 26.
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