NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE OF SPOKANE v. Spokane

Supreme Court of Washington · Decided 2011-09-29

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C. Johnson, J. ¶1 This Public Records Act (PRA) case asks us to define the scope of discovery allowed in PRA-provoked lawsuits, what constitutes an adequate search for requested records, and whether a party may be prevailing when it possesses some responsive documents at the time suit is filed. We hold discovery in a PRA case is the same as in any other civil action and is therefore governed only by relevancy considerations, reve…

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