Tennessee sunshine lawsuits
From Sunshine Review
Here is a list of major FOIA court decisions and their affect on the Tennessee Open Records Act.
(The cases are listed alphabetically. To order them by year please click the icon below the Year heading)
| Article | Year | Precedent |
|---|---|---|
| Dorrier v. Dark | 1976 | |
| Mayhew v. Wilde | 2001 | |
| Memphis Publishing Co. v. Cherokee Children & Family Services | 2002 | This case established that private entities could be subject to the state public records law if they performed the "functional equivalent" of a government agency. |
| Memphis Publishing Co. v. City of Memphis | 1974 | |
| Memphis Publishing Co. v. Holt | 1986 | |
| State ex rel. Wellford v. Williams | 1903 | |
| Tennessean v. Bureau of TennCare | 2005 | |
| Tennessean v. Electric Power Board of Nashville | 1998 | 1.) Electronic records possessed by a government are, like paper records, subject to the state's public records law. 2.) PLaced a limit on what governments could charge for records request and required a schedule of fees. |
| Tennessean v. Tennessee Department of Personnel | 2007 | |
| The Tennessean v. Powers Management/Allen v. Day | 2004 | The case reiterated that private organizations performing government services under contract are subject to the state Public Records Act. |
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