Legal Opinion
Independent Weekly, LLC v. Pope
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided September 28, 2016No. 16-282PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PICKETT, Judge.
h Brian Pope, Lafayette City Marshal, appeals a judgment of the trial court finding he was unreasonable and arbitrary in his responses to two public records requests filed on behalf of The Independent Weekly and awarding statutory penalties and attorney fees.
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
On October 8, 2015, Christiaan Madér, a staff writer for The Independent Weekly, made a request for public records via email to Mr. Pope as custodian of thé records of the Lafayette City Marshal’s Office. Mr. Pope had held a press conference on October 7, 2015, alleging that Mark Garber, a candidate for…
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- Hollingsworth v. City of MindenSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2002
- Innocence Project New Orleans v. New Orleans Police DepartmentLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2013
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