Seattle, WA
Education Lawyer at Seattle, WA
Practice Areas: Education, Administrative Law, Appeals
OUTCOME: The Times successfully defended the public's right to disclosure at the trial and appellate levels.
High school football players sued the Seattle Times in an effort to present disclosure of investigative records in a high-profile case involving sexual assault allegations.
OUTCOME: Successful. The federal court reversed the administrative ruling and ordered compensatory education in writing.
Parents appealed an administrative judge's ruling in a special education due process case, alleging that the school district failed to evaluate and identify their child's writing disability.
OUTCOME: favorable for media amici
In an 8-1 decision, the US Supreme Court held that federal agencies no longer can use the "internal personnel" exemption to the Freedom of Information Act to withhold records of public importance that ... have nothing to do with personnel management. I wrote the original trial briefs as an associate at Gendler & Mann and later wrote amicus briefs in the 9th Circuit and US Supreme Court on behalf of newspaper and journalist groups.
OUTCOME: Successful: The Washington Supreme Court reversed dismissal of the association's Public Records Act suit.
This case established as a matter of first impression that, in refusing to release records under the Public Records Act, an agency must make a sufficiently specific claim of exemption - identifying eac ... h withheld record and the reason for withholding it - in order to trigger the Act's one-year statute of limitations.
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