Campaign for Accountability v. Consumer Credit Research Found.

2 Citing cases

  1. Provenza v. Town of Canaan

    175 N.H. 121 (N.H. 2022)   Cited 8 times
    In Provenza, the plaintiff sought to bar release under the Right-to-Know Law of "an investigative report commissioned by the Town as a result of a motor vehicle stop in which he was involved while still employed by the Town as a police officer."

    We have not yet addressed whether RSA 91-A:7 provides a remedy for, and grants standing to, an individual who seeks to prevent disclosure of information pursuant to the Right-to-Know Law. Compare Campaign for Accountability v. CCRF, 303 Ga. 828, 815 S.E.2d 841 (2018) (holding that parties with an interest in nondisclosure of public records pertaining to them may pursue a lawsuit to seek compliance with the state Open Records Act), and Beckham v. Bd. of Educ. of Jefferson Cty., 873 S.W.2d 575 (Ky. 1994) (holding that a party affected by the decision of a public agency to release records pursuant to state Open Records Act had standing to contest the agency decision in court), with Chrysler Corp. v. Brown, 441 U.S. 281, 99 S.Ct. 1705, 60 L.Ed.2d 208 (1979) (holding that federal Freedom of Information Act does not provide a remedy for one who seeks to prevent disclosure), and R.I. Federation of Teachers v. Sundlun, 595 A.2d 799 (R.I. 1991) (holding that state Access to Public Records Act does not provide a reverse remedy to prevent disclosure). The legislature may wish to consider whether clarification as to who is entitled to seek relief under RSA 91-A:7 is warranted.

  2. Khalia, Inc. v. Rosebud

    353 Ga. App. 350 (Ga. Ct. App. 2019)   Cited 7 times
    Affirming award of $140,951.17 where contingency fee agreement would have generated a fee of $442,855.13 and hourly billing would have resulted in fees of $50,000, emphasizing that the trial court reduced the award from the amount sought by the plaintiff because it found that some of the fees evidenced by the plaintiff’s attorneys were not reasonable

    The surplusage canon has been adopted in Georgia. See Campaign for Accountability v. Consumer Credit Research Found. , 303 Ga. 828, 834, 815 S.E.2d 841, 846 (2018). "In the absence of words of limitation, words in a statute should be given their ordinary and everyday meaning."