Arizona sunshine lawsuits
From Sunshine Review
Here is a list of major FOIA court decisions and their affect on the Arizona Public Records Law.
(The cases are listed alphabetically. To order them by year please click the icon below the Year heading)
| Article | Year | Precedent |
|---|---|---|
| Arizona Newspapers Inc. v. Superior Court | 1985 | |
| Carlson v. Pima County | 1984 | The court eliminated the distinction between public records and "other matters", in favor of a comparison of the interests of privacy and the policy of openness with regard to whether records should be released |
| City of Prescott v. Town of Chino Valley | 1990 | |
| Cox Arizona Publications Inc. v. Collins | 1993 | The court determined that ongoing police investigations were not automatically exempt material. |
| Lake v. City of Phoenix | 2009 | This case established that information held in an electronic medium is subject to the Arizona Public Records Law in the original medium, including all meta-data attached to the record. |
| Mathews v. Pyle | 1952 |
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