WASHINGTON POST v. MINOR. BUS. OPP. COM'N

No. 87-785.

560 A.2d 517 (1989)

The WASHINGTON POST COMPANY, Appellant, v. MINORITY BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 16, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara P. Percival, with whom Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr., Washington, D.C., and Denise E. Holmes were on the brief, for appellant.

Christopher M. Kerns, with whom Mitchell Barry Rosenfeld and Joseph F. Giordano, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellees Fort Myer Const. Corp. and Opportunity Concrete Corp.

Edward E. Schwab, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom Frederick D. Cooke, Jr., Corp. Counsel, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee Minority Business Opportunity Com'n.

Before MACK, STEADMAN and SCHWELB, Associate Judges.


SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

The District of Columbia is committed by statute both to the right of its citizens to freedom of information and to the principle of affirmative action to correct the effects of past racial discrimination. This appeal requires us to consider the application of the first of these statutory policies to facts which potentially implicate the second.

Appellant Washington Post Company (the Post), relying on the District's Freedom of Information...

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