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KONIGSBERG v. COUGHLIN

68 N.Y.2d 245 (1986)

In the Matter of Harold Konigsberg, Appellant, v. Thomas A. Coughlin, III, as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided October 16, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Selcov and David C. Leven for appellant.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Frank K. Walsh, O. Peter Sherwood and Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for respondents.

Judges MEYER, SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE and HANCOCK, JR., concur.

Chief Judge WACHTLER.

The dispositive issue on this appeal is whether petitioner "reasonably described" the documents to which he sought access under the Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law art 6 [FOIL]). Because respondents, the Commissioner of the Department of Correctional Services and the superintendent of petitioner's correctional facility, failed to establish that the demand was insufficient...

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