GOVERNOR v. WASHINGTON POST

No. 117, Sept. Term, 1998.

759 A.2d 249 (2000)

360 Md. 520

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR et al. v. WASHINGTON POST COMPANY.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

September 12, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence P. Fletcher-Hill, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for appellants.

Carmen M. Shepard, Deputy Atty. Gen. (reargued), for appellants.

Jonathan J. Frankel (Stephen H. Sachs, Patrick J. Carome, Tarnisha A. Graves, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, on brief), Washington, DC; Eric N. Lieberman, Washington, DC, of counsel, for appellee.

Reargued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL and HARRELL, JJ.


ELDRIDGE, Judge.

This case involves the extent to which telephone bills for telephones used by the Governor and two of his staff members, and the Governor's unpublished appointment schedules, are subject to public disclosure under the Maryland Public Information Act, Maryland Code (1984, 1999 Repl.Vol.), §§ 10-611 through 10-630 of the State Government Article.1

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