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Brandweek writer's two-year quest for court file

By Mark Obbie

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Jim Edwards may have just screwed the pooch. But I applaud his moxie -- not only pressing for access to public court files for two years, in a New York civil suit that's newsworthy and inexplicably kept private, but now he's taken it public in this Judicial Reports story. Access to public court records should not be so difficult. Reporters, as proxies for the public, are not the enemy. Now we'll see if the judge has any sense of shame.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on September 02, 2008 (boomark / email).

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