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New York Court Limits Costs to $.25 per Page for Prison Medical Records Requests
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2013, page 47
A New York appellate court has upheld a lower court’s decision that the cost for medical records requested by prisoners or their representatives under the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) is no more than $.25 per page.The Legal Aid Society (LAS) sought disclosure of certain medical records from the ...
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