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MI Prisoner’s FOIA Suit Dismissed for Lack of Injury by Delay

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2008

Filed under: Attorney Fee Awards, Civil Procedure, Disclosure of Records. Location: Michigan.

David Lakin, a Michigan state prisoner, filed suit in state court against the Department of Corrections (DOC) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Mich. Comp. Laws § 15.231, et seq. (Mich. Stat. Ann. § 4.1801(1), et seq.), when the DOC failed to respond to his request for records in ...

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