Sussex Commons Associates, LLC v. Rutgers

The opinion of the court was delivered by

FUENTES, J.A.D.

Plaintiffs Sussex Commons Associates, LLC, and Howard Buer-kle filed a formal request under the Open Public Records Act *540(“OPRA”), N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 to -13, with the Custodian of Records for Rutgers, the State University, seeking access to eighteen categories of documents concerning the Environmental Law Clinic (Clinic) operated by Rutgers Law School in Newark. The request sought documents related to the Clinic’s finances and its representation of two private citizens’ groups that were opposing plaintiffs’ proposed development of an outlet…