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litigation costs incurred attendant to prosecuting the instant action. 1 V.S.A.
9. Defendant currently retains the law firm of Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C.
Vermont Public Records law. See Ex A.
exemptions enumerated in the statute?
public agency. It was therefore and remains—for the pertinent incidents and time frame-subject to the same public record disclosure laws which govern the Vermont DOC.
considerable, if not complete, power over the private contractor.
incorporated and adopted Vermont’s Public Records Act.
using flexible approaches rather than restrictive ones.
the absence of one suffice to deny it.
4) Whether the entity was a creation of the government.
News and Sun-Sentinel Co. v. Schwab, Twitty & Hanser Architectural Group, Inc., 596 So.
Publishing Co. v. Wake County Hosp. Systems, Inc., 284 S.E.2d 542 (N.C. Ct. App. 1981).
exclusively on the extent to which the company serves a public function.
Hackworth v. Board of Education, 447 S. E. 2d 78 (Ga. Ct. App. 1994); Encore College Bookstores, Inc.
v. Auxiliary Service Corp., 663 N.E. 2d 302 (N.Y. 1995); San Gabriel Tribune v. Superior Court, 192 Cal.
Rptr. 415 (Cal. Ct. App. 1983); State ex rel. Guste v. Nicholls College Foundation, 564 So. 2d 682 (La.
1991); Kentucky Central Life Insurance Co. v. Park Broadcasting of Kentucky, Inc., 913 S.W. 2d 330 (Ky.
Gannon and Arlene Nichols v. Board of Regents, State of Iowa, 692 N.W.2d 31 (2005); and Voelbel v.
Bridgewater, 667 A.2d 1028 (N.H. 1995).
N.W. 2d 726 (Minn. Ct. App. 1990); Becky v. Butte-Silver Bow School District No 1., 906 P.2d 193 (Mont.
and Journal/Sentinel, Inc. v. School Bd. of the School District, 521 N.W. 165 (Wisc. Ct. App. 1994).
Act because it received less than 50% of its funding from state sources. See Kubick v.
controlled by a public agency. See Hopf v . Topcorp, Inc. 628 N.E.2d 311 (Ill. App. Ct.
control that the statute required in order to make them subject to public disclosure laws.
Weston v. Carolina Research& Development Foundation, 401 S.E. 2d 161 (S.C. 1991); Blankenship v.
See Community College v. Brown, 674 A.2d 670 (Pa. 1996) and 4-H Road Community Association v.
“functional equivalent” of a state agency, therefore obligated to disclose its records.
available under the Vermont Public Records Act.
including a public agency’s payments to legal counsel--do not fall within any of them.
exempt PHS from its obligations to disclose under the law.
substantive conversations or communications involving legal advice or litigation strategy.
certainly does not constitute a sweeping or “blanket” exemption.
relate to legal advice sought by the agency from the attorney.” City of New Haven et al v.
Misc.2d 346, 637 N.Y.S.2d 596 (1995).
& Brown Co., 125 Misc.2d 185, 188, 479 N.Y.S.2d 435 [Sup.Ct. Kings Co.1984] ).
whether billing statements or invoices fall under the Act’s privilege exemptions.
E) Award Plaintiff reasonable attorney’s fees and litigation costs.
DATED at St. Johnsbury, Vermont on August 23, 2010.

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