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N.J. Supreme Court – Records related to cases at public law school clinics are not subject to Open Public Records Act

Chronicle of Higher Education, Peter Schmidt: “The New Jersey State Supreme Court has held that the state’s open-records law does not require a Rutgers University legal clinic to relinquish client files, handing a major victory to higher-education associations, which warned that an inability to maintain attorney-client privilege would badly damage the nation’s public law schools. Overturning a state appeals-court decision against the public law clinic, the State Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that the state’s open-records act does not cover documents related to such clinics’ efforts to represent clients.”

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