Redinger v. Casteen

By Judge Melvin R. Hughes, Jr.

This proceeding is an outgrowth of an earlier one which resulted in allowing and denying disclosure of certain documents under die Virginia freedom of Information Act, § 2.1-340, et seq. (The Act or FOIA). The court decided the issues in a letter dated January 18, 1995, [35 Va. Cir. 380], and the decision was afterwards implemented in an order entered February 15, 1959.

The parties are before the court again, this time on a Petition For Award of Fees and Costs pursuant to § 2.1-346.1 of the Act, which is opposed. In its pertinent part the section permits recovery…