Scott v. Shepard

*760Petitioner commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law art 6 [hereinafter FOIL]) seeking the disclosure of certain medical records pertaining to a medical experiment conducted while he was an inmate at Clinton Correctional Facility in Clinton County between 1967 and 1969. Supreme Court dismissed the petition on the basis that respondents provided petitioner with an adequate response to his FOIL request by indicating that such records could not be located. The court further denied petitioner’s motion to amend the petition to include…