Friday, July 31, 2009

FINALLY!

Judge E. Wayne Phillips has finally ruled in the "secret box/black box" lawsuit.

According to this article, he ruled that "corporations, as non-human entities, do not have individual privacy rights under the state constitution".

The city and SME have until August 14 to provide the court detailed accounting as to why they think certain documents should continue to be kept from public scrutiny. Because the court delayed in releasing the ruling, the judge has given SME the opportunity to request a later deadline.

See the order here (thanks, Gregg) and check out his perspective on the ruling.

3 comments:

Great Falls Guy said...

More wasted time. Meanwhile our city coffers spill our tax dollars into the SME black hole....

DC Watcher said...

THE TRUTH WILL OUT...eventually. Some more 'baby steps' for city hall and their 'cousin', SME, to muddle along

Anonymous said...

This ruling does not open the secret box to the public. The way this judge has laid it out, it will probably take years before the public gets access.