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PRACTICAL POL. CONSULTING v. SEC. OF STATE

Docket No. 291176.

789 N.W.2d 178 (2010)

287 Mich. App. 434

PRACTICAL POLITICAL CONSULTING, INC. v. SECRETARY OF STATE.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided March 9, 2010, at 9:05 a.m.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brookover, Carr & Schaberg, P.C. (by Diane S. Carr ), East Lansing, for plaintiff.

Michael A. Cox , Attorney General, B. Eric Restuccia , Solicitor General, and Susan Leffler , Denise C. Barton , and Ann M. Sherman , Assistant Attorneys General, for defendants.

Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, P.C. (by Eric E. Doster ), Lansing, for amicus curiae the Michigan Republican Party.

Before: BORRELLO, P.J., and WHITBECK and KIRSTEN FRANK KELLY, JJ.

WHITBECK, J.

This appeal concerns the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) relating to public records.1 But the central question here is not the availability of public records. Rather it is whether the disclosure, or concealment, of these records will lead to, or detract from, the public's ability to hold its elected and appointed public officials accountable for carrying out the law. The Secretary of State (the Secretary...

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