Opinion ID: 874115
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Heading Rank: 4

Heading: The district court properly dismissed Allied's public records claim.

Text: The district court held that Allied failed to state a claim under Idaho's public records statute because Allied sought only attorney fees in relation to the respondents' alleged violation of the statute. Under that statute, [t]he sole remedy for a person aggrieved by the denial of a request for disclosure [of public records] is to institute proceedings in the district court of the county where the records or some part thereof are located, to compel the public agency or independent public body corporate and politic to make the information available for public inspection. . . I.C. § 9-343(1). As the district court noted, Allied conceded in its July 16, 2008 response to the respondents' motion to dismiss that it did not seek damages for the violation of Idaho Code, Title 9, Chapter 3, other than for attorney fees. Since the only remedy Allied sought was attorney fees, Allied did not seek the statute's sole remedy of compelled document production. Thus, Allied failed to state a public records claim, and the district court's dismissal of the claim was proper.