Alex Friedmann v. Marshall County, TN

BRANDON 0. GIBSON, J.,

concurring.

I concur with the majority Opinion’s ruling, but .1 write separately to address only the attorneys’ fee issue. Over the years, two schools of thought apparently-developed regarding the “willfulness” standard under the Public Records Act attorneys’ fee provision. TenmCode Ann. 10-7-505(g). One school of thought adoptéd the Black’s Law Dictionary definition of bad faith, which includes phrases like “the conscious doing of a wrong,” “dishonest purpose,” and “moral obliquity.” See Capital Case Res. Ctr. of Tenn., Inc. v. Woodall, No. 01-A01-9104-CH-00150, 1992 WL…