Legal Opinion
Konigsberg v. Coughlin
New York Court of Appeals
Decided October 16, 1986PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Chief Judge Wachtler.
The dispositive issue on this appeal is whether petitioner "reasonably described” the documents to which he sought access under the Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law art 6 [FOIL]). Because respondents, the Commissioner of the Department of Correctional Services and the superintendent of petitioner’s correctional facility, failed to establish that the demand was insufficient for purposes of enabling them to locate and identify the documents sought, we hold that petitioner’s request satisfied the statutory standard (Public Officers Law § 89…
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