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Courts in Washington, D.C., Connecticut and Montana all chose to protect the privacy of political candidates instead of releasing government records to news agencies. Reporter Linda Hunt was denied access to mental health records of US Senate candidate Oliver North, and a US district court in D.C. refused to compel the US Marine Corps. The Montana Supreme Court chose to protect the privacy interests of parties mentioned in attorney disciplinary hearings for a judicial candidate. Records of a domestic dispute police call involving Connecticut gubernatorial candidate John Rowland were kept private by a state court.
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The North Dakota Supreme Court ruled in Adams County Record v. Greater North Dakota Ass'n that the lower court should not have dismissed the suit and that the association may be subject to the state's open records laws. The business advocacy organization has 30 government organizations as members and received $60,000 in grants from 1993-1995 to fund one of the several journals the association publishes. The Supreme Court found that a question of fact existed regarding whether the association was subject to the open records laws.
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The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) does not have to allow access to records given to it voluntarily by the Institute for Nuclear Power Operations (INPO). The Critical Mass Energy Project of Public Citizen requested INPO records from the NRC under the Freedom of Information Act, but the court ruled the INPO records qualify as commercial information exempt from access under the act.
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