Legal Opinion
Philip M. Bowler Sr. v. State of Maine
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided December 31, 2014No. Docket Ken-14-201PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtMead, J.
[¶ 1] In 2013, pursuant to the Freedom of Access Act (FOAA), 1 M.R.S. §§ 400-414 (2014), Phillip M. Bowler Sr. requested, and was subsequently denied, access to an investigative file held by the Attorney General concerning a death that occurred in 1953. Bowler appealed the denial of his request to the Superior Court pursuant to 1 M.R.S. § 409. The court (Kennebec County, Murphy, J.) entered a judgment denying the appeal, and Bowler now appeals from that judgment. He contends that (1) the court erred in finding that the file was made confidential by statute; (2) even if the file was…
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