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In a 2005 opinion, the Colorado Supreme Court found that e-mail messages between public officials only counted as public records so far as they addressed the performance of public functions or the receipt or expenditure of public funds. In states like Missouri with open meeting laws requiring a quorum - a majority of board members needed to take official action - an instant message between two officials is not likely to be a violation, whereas a virtual chat room involving a majority of members or an e-mail chain that has repeatedly utilized the "reply-all" function would likely violate it.
... of the communication and what type of information was being communicated in judging whether e-mail s... Davis, executive director of the National Freedom of Information Coalition, said such a price is wor...
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Article 4 of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam's Constitution, says: "The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)... follows Marxism-Leninism and the thought of Ho Chi Minh, and it is the leading force of the state and society." It is on this basis that democratic rights are curtailed. The power structure in Vietnam rejects competition and minimizes the possibility of its replacement by something else.
The highest objective in the struggle to fight for freedom and democracy for the Vietnamese nation today is to make sure that the present political regime in Vietnam is changed in a fundamental way, not through incremental "renovation" steps or, even worse, through insignificant touch-ups here and there. Concretely speaking, it must be a change from the monolithic, one-party, non-competitive reg...
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Madison -- Law enforcement agencies may release information from motor vehicle records in the course of responding to public records requests, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said in an informal opinion issued Tuesday.
The opinion was requested by the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and several newspapers, including the Journal Sentinel, to clarify how to balance the federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act with requests made to law enforcement agencies under the state's open records law.
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(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2010 NOTE: Where it is feasible, a ...The Freedom of Information Act requires federal agencies to ...
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...(i) The request contains incomplete information on which to base an informed advisory opinion;. (i... prior advisory opinions maintained by the Freedom of Information Staff (HFI-35). (e) An advisory opi...
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... an enormous amount of valuable information that it lacks the capacity to review. Given that t... judgment of the Court and delivered an opinion, in which O'CONNOR, SCALIA, and THOMAS, JJ., joine...freedom of speech' even if he has no entitlement to that b...
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In what attorneys are calling another standard-setting decision on electronic discovery, Judge Shira Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has authored an opinion addressing issues related to metadata and the form of production for electronic records.
Judge Scheindlin - a legend in e-discovery circles for her opinions in Zubulake and Pension Committee - recently issued an order in National Day Laborer Organizing Network v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, a dispute in a Freedom of Information Act case that offers broader e-discovery lessons.
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...STEVENS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which REHNQUIST, C. J., and O'CON... by one to communicate and discuss information with a view to influencing the other's action are ...While the freedom to communicate is substantial, "the right of every...
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... regulation of telecommunications and information technology in Cyprus is kept relatively separate f..., the aim of which is to reflect public opinion. The relevant national laws in relation to radio a.... In relation to freedom of information legislation, even though there is n...
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... entirety, the advertisement conveyed information of potential interest and value to a diverse audie... BLACKMUN, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which BURGER, C. J., and DOUGLAS,..., in the area of First Amendment freedoms, the existence of a penal statute susceptible of s...