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Urging the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to hold that the commonwealth citizenship requirement provision contained in Virginia's freedom of information laws is unconstitutional.
Urging Governor Herbert to veto a bill that, among other things, would categorically exempt text messages and other electronic communications from disclosure under Utah's open records law.
Urging rejection of HB 2383, a bill to amend the Virginia FOIA to allow state public bodies the ability to seek court permission to ignore harassing, abusive or overly burdensome document requests.
Urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hold that corporate entities cannot claim "personal privacy" rights under exemption 7(C) to the federal Freedom of Information Act.
Urging the Maryland Court of Appeals to hold that police internal investigatory records regarding allegations of racial profiling are not "personnel" records under the Maryland Public Information Act subject to withholding and must be disclosed to the public upon request.
Urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a broad reading of Exemption 2 under the federal Freedom of Information Act, commonly known as a "High 2" exemption, that has been accepted by some courts and rejected by others.
Urging the Colorado Supreme Court to hold that Governor Bill Ritter's personal cell phone call log records that document communications regarding state business are subject to disclosure under the Colorado Open Records Act.
Urging the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia to find that the state's freedom of information act does not require public records to have been physically "prepared" by the public body in the first instance, and thus to order the clerk to release the signatures on a voter referendum petition.
Urging the Supreme Court of Texas to hold that the common law privacy exemption to the Texas Public Information Act does not apply to public employee dates of birth, and arguing that date of birth information is vitally important to accurately monitoring the actions of public officers and their employees.
Urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to narrowly construe the scope of FOIA Exemption 4 because the public interest in disclosure of the unprecedented financial bailout records outweighs any potential for competitive harm.
Asking the Supreme Court to decline hearing the case on whether FOIA requires disclosure of images of alleged detainee abuse carried out by U.S. troops in Iraq in Afghanistan.