Legal Opinion
Kline v. Fuller
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided September 5, 1985No. 687, September Term, 1984PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GARRITY, Judge.
We shall focus upon the standard used in determining whether to grant an award of attorney fees to a litigant forced to bring an action under the Maryland Public Information Act in order to gain access to public documents.
Procedural Background
The matter sub judice arises from our holding in Kline v. Fuller, 56 Md.App. 294, 467 A.2d 786 (1983). In that case we determined that the Sheriff of Charles County, the appellee herein, was a state official and, therefore, subject to the Public Information Act (Md. Act). We remanded the case to provide the trial court an opportunity to…
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