Legal Opinion
NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE OF SPOKANE v. Spokane
Washington Supreme Court
Decided September 29, 2011No. 84108-0PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtC. Johnson, J.
¶1 This Public Records Act (PRA) case asks us to define the scope of discovery allowed in PRA-provoked lawsuits, what constitutes an adequate search for requested records, and whether a party may be prevailing when it possesses some responsive documents at the time suit is filed. We hold discovery in a PRA case is the same as in any other civil action and is therefore governed only by relevancy considerations, reversing the Court of Appeals’ decision. We hereby adopt Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) standards of reasonableness regarding an adequate search, consistent with the Court of…
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