Legal Opinion
New York Public Interest Research Group, Inc. v. Cohen
New York Supreme Court
Decided July 16, 2001PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Edward H. Lehner, J.
Petitioner commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding pur*659suant to the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) to compel respondents, the New York City Department of Health (DOH) and its Commissioner, to provide records concerning childhood blood lead level screening. The central issue raised is whether requiring the DOH to program its computers to expunge confidential information from a list of individual blood level tests amounts to mandating that the agency create a new “record,” as that term is used in section 89 (3) of the Public Officers Law.
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2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Russo v. Nassau County Community CollegeNew York Court of Appeals · 1993
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