Legal Opinion
Deshotels v. White
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided August 16, 2017No. 2016 CA 0889PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McClendon, j.
|2The defendants appeal a judgment awarding civil penalties to the plaintiff where the trial court determined that the defendants “arbitrarily and capriciously” failed to produce the documents sought through a public records request. For the following reasons, we amend the judgment and affirm as amended.
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
On Friday, February 6, 2015, Michael Deshotels submitted a public records request to John White, State Superintendent of Education, and to the Louisiana Department of Education (the Department), seeking “a copy of the October 2014 multi-stat report for…
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