Stone v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System

¶ 1. This is an open records law case. The requester, Robert Stone, appeals an order of the circuit court granting summary judgment against him and dismissing his mandamus action against the University of Wisconsin-Madison Survey Center. Admittedly, the University destroyed what it believed were identical copies of otherwise available documents that were responsive to Stone's open records request. Stone suspects that some of these allegedly identical copies were not identical, but instead altered in some fashion. Stone contends that, once he submitted his open records request to the…