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AMER. TRADITION INST. v. RECTOR & VISITORS

Record No. 130934.

756 S.E.2d 435 (2014)

AMERICAN TRADITION INSTITUTE, et al. v. RECTOR AND VISITORS OF the UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 17, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Schnare ( D.Z. Kaufman ; Free Market Environmental Law Clinic; Kaufman Law Group, on briefs), for appellants.

Richard C. Kast , Associate General Counsel; Madelyn F. Wessel , Associate General Counsel ( Peter J. Fontaine ; Scott J. Newton ; Cozen O'Connor; Stephens , Boatwright , Cooper & Coleman, on brief), for appellees.

Amici Curiae: The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 17 Media Organizations ( Robert G. Scott, Jr. ; Bruce D. Brown ; Davis Wright Tremaine , on brief), in support of appellants.

Amici Curiae: The American Council on Education, The American Association of State Colleges and Universities, The Association of American Medical Colleges, The Association of American Universities, The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, and the National Academy of Sciences ( Ada Meloy ; Jessica L. Ellsworth ; Stephanie J. Gold ; Christopher A. Lott; Hogan Lovells , on brief), in support of appellees.

Amici Curiae: The American Association of University Professors and Union of Concerned Scientists ( Thaila K. Sundaresan ; Don Bradford Hardin, Jr. ; David W. Ogden ; Daniel S. Volchok ; Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, on brief), in support of appellees.

Present: KINSER, C.J., LEMONS, GOODWYN, MILLETTE, MIMS, and POWELL, JJ., and LACY, S.J.

Opinion by Justice DONALD W. LEMONS.

In this appeal, we consider whether the Circuit Court of Prince William County ("trial court") erred by denying a request for disclosure of certain documents under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act ("VFOIA"), Code § 2.2-3700 et seq., and whether a public body may impose charges for the cost of reviewing documents under the statutory exclusions.1

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