We granted the plaintiff's petition for certification to appeal, limited to the following issues: "1. Whether the Appellate Court properly required the disclosure of documents pertaining to a matter in litigation before the federal court, despite General Statutes (Rev. to 1997) § 1-19b(b)(1), which provides that the disclosure requirements of the Freedom of Information Act shall not `limit the rights of litigants . . . under the laws of discovery?' "2. Whether the trial court was barred from applying the Freedom of Information Act to the present case because the legal matter in question was `otherwise provided by federal law?'" Chief of Police v. Freedom of Information Commission, 248 Conn. 914, 734 A.2d 564 (1999). General Statutes § 1-19b (b)(1) has been transferred to § 1-213(b)(1).