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No Protective Order for Municipal Financial Records

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Civil Procedure, Disclosure of Records. Location: New York.

In a suit against a former municipal official against the municipality, the
municipality failed to justify the request for a protective order for
certain financial records. At 304: "The routinely maintained financial
records of a municipality . . . are presumptively open to the public,
including the municipality's constituents." A ...

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