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New Jersey Law Journal

'I Hope Gov. Murphy Stands With the Public': Clock Ticks to See If Controversial OPRA Bill Is Signed

"Perception really matters," Sen. Michael L. Testa Jr. said. "We have over 9 million New Jerseyans who, to me, a large majority of them, or at least a very loud majority of them, are saying that they want transparency and accountability."
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New Jersey Law Journal

OPRA's Attorney Fee-Shifting Provision Draws Concerns

"More broadly, we will continue our fight for open government and for transparency," Liza Weisberg, a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, said. "We will continue to fight for open government and for transparency, not just to restore the OPRA we had before this bill, but to push it forward. Unfortunately, New Jersey has moved in the wrong direction."
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Law.com

State Appellate Court Vacates Attorney's Sanctions for Presumed Use of Public Records

"She was seeking through her Petition to vindicate her right to the public records," Tennessee Court of Appeals Judge Jeffrey Usman said. "In general, this is the definition of a proper purpose, and there does not appear to be any dispute that Ms. Reguli genuinely wanted to obtain these public records which she reasonably believed she had a legal right to access."
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New Jersey Law Journal

5-2 High Court Majority: County Prosecutor Organization Not Required to Turn Over Records to ACLU

"Although I wish the dissent's reasoning had prevailed, what seems clear is that when CPANJ's records are in the hands of a prosecutor or other public agency, they can likely still be obtained that way," CJ Griffin, director of the Justice Gary S. Stein Public Interest Center at Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, said in a statement emailed to the Law Journal. "It will just take much more time and effort to track down which of the 21 prosecutor offices holds a particular document."
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Daily Report Online

Commentary: Change to First-Offender Law Would Enable Corruption Cover-Ups

A member of the Georgia First Amendment Foundation's Legislative Watch team writes that, by automating the sealing of first-offender case records, House Bill 909 removes judicial discretion and hides from Georgians those first-offender cases where public interest should prevail.
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Law.com

Courthouse News Services Files Suit Over DC Superior Court's Delayed Filing Policy

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
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New Jersey Law Journal

NJ GOP Senate Judiciary Members Pose Questions About Party Affiliation Changes to 3 Superior Court Nominees

"My concern is that, if I do vote for you, which I would like to do based on your history as a lawyer, based on your personality, and based on your statements, I am afraid I am sending a message to future judiciary committees that I am disrespecting tradition or the statute," Sen. Jon Bramnick said to one of the three nominees during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting Thursday.
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Law.com

California Psychedelics/Rescheduling FOIA Suit/Axel Bernabe's New Role/A Massachusetts Regulator Sues

When it comes to legalizing psychedelics, "There's actually lots of approaches to be tried," said Eric Munevar, campaign director for the California Psilocybin Initiative 2024. "You want pressure coming from all sides of society on something like this."
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Texas Lawyer

Bad News for Courthouse Staff: They Won't Get the Same Protection as Judges

"I applaud the legislature for recognizing the need to protect the public servants who work in court facilities, and I fully support this measure to keep those who help whose duties are performed in the public administration of justice, as well as their family members, safe," Travis County 250th District Judge Karin Crump said.
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Law.com

Communications Between State AGs in 'Anticipation of Litigation' May Be Privileged, High Court Rules

"Here, the documents and communications at issue were shared by the AGO with the AGOs of other states in an effort to unify its strategy and conserve resources with regard to environmental litigation that the AGO has considered pursuing or predicted defending against. The very nature of disclosing these documents to the chief law enforcement officer in the respective state only bolsters that these documents were prepared in anticipation of litigation," Associate Justice Nancy J. Waples wrote on behalf of the court.
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