Chief of Police v. Freedom of Information Commission

1 Citing case

  1. Chief of Police v. Freedom of Information Commission

    252 Conn. 377 (Conn. 2000)   Cited 29 times
    Holding that FOIA, not rules of discovery, govern whether records of an agency in litigation are subject to disclosure by the FOIC.

    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).