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Supreme
Court's
Reading of
FOIA Rights
Voids ICP
Delaware
Win, Lucha
at UN
UNITED
NATIONS, April
29 -- The US
Supreme Court
is not a beat
Inner City
Press covers
day to day,
but this time
we must. In
Monday's
decision
in McBurney
v. Young,
Justice Samuel
Alito ruled
that Virginia
limiting its
Freedom of
Information
Act responses
to state
residents does
not burden
interstate
commerce, and
that no
Constitutional
right was at
stake.
Inner
City Press pursued and
won an earlier
case against a
similar
Delaware
law,
winning in the
Third Circuit
Court of
Appeals that
the rights or
"privileges
and
immunities" to
be a
journalist
were
impacted by
being denied
access to
records about
HSBC.
The
litigants in McBurney
v. Young
reached out to
Inner City
Press, it was
was an amicus,
along with
other
publications.
Now
Inner City
Press' earlier
win in Lee
v Minner
is, in effect,
erased, and
it's back to
the drawing
board. More
fights, for
more
information,
now at and
through the
UN, including
through the
new Free UN
Coalition for
Access.
Just
as Alito's
logic doesn't
seem to make
sense when
applied to
Delaware,
a state which
because it
incorporates
businesses
from all over
has
impacts well
beyond its own
citizens, it
would make
less sense
applied to the
United
Nations.
On
that, compare
the type of
documents
about UN inner
working
obtained
by Inner City
Press under US
FOIA from the
Voice of
America
(samples
here
and here
and here)
with the
outright refusal
of the UN
to even
state who it
allowed into
Inner City
Press' office
during a
non-consensual
raid on March
18, 2013.
The
difference?
The UN has no
FOIA. But
FUNCA is
fighting for
it. Watch this
site.
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