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Montana Newspaper Entitled to Fees Incurred to Obtain Copies of Documents

Loaded on June 15, 2008

Filed under: Attorney Fee Awards, Disclosure of Records, Media. Location: Montana.

The Havre Daily News (newspaper), a Montana subchapter of a Washington corporation, sued the city of Havre, Montana in state court under Mont. Const. art. II § 9 to compel disclosure of an unredacted incident report. During litigation the city disclosed the unredacted report, and the trial court granted the ...

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