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GALVIN v. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION

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201 Conn. 448 (1986)

CATHERINE A. GALVIN v. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released November 25, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jane S. Scholl, assistant attorney general, with whom were Richard J. Lynch, assistant attorney general, and, on the brief, Joseph I. Lieberman, attorney general, for the appellant (plaintiff).

Steven Spellman, for the appellees (defendant David W. Schoolcraft et al.)

Mitchell W. Pearlman, general counsel, and Constance L. Chambers, assistant general counsel, Freedom of Information Commission, filed a brief as amici curiae.

PETERS, C. J., SHEA, DANNEHY, CALLAHAN and COVELLO, JS.

PETERS, C. J.

The dispositive issue on this appeal is whether autopsy reports compiled by the office of Connecticut's chief medical examiner are public records subject to public inspection under General Statutes § 1-19 (a),1 the mainstay provision of the Freedom of Information Act. The plaintiff, Dr. Catherine A. Galvin, was the state's chief medical examiner at all times relevant to this...

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