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Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Law - Wisconsin Judge won't throw out suit over release of bill drafts
This is an interesting public records case from Wisconsin. As reported today by the AP in the The Janesville Wisconsin Gazette:
MADISON, Wis. - A judge has refused to throw out the attorney general's lawsuit aimed at classifying bill drafts as public records once lobbyists have seen them.Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager filed the lawsuit on the state's behalf last fall after state Sen. Dave Zien, R-Eau Claire, and state Rep. Scott Gunderson, R-Waterford, refused to give her a draft of a bill that would let Wisconsin residents carry concealed weapons, even though they had shared it with lobbyists.
The suit accuses the lawmakers of violating the state's open records law. The lawsuit named the state as a plaintiff. Lautenschlager later amended it to add herself as a plaintiff.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on May 3, 2006 04:40 PM
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