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Legislature affirms denial of lawyer charges in UALR prof’s FOI case

The Arkansas Legislative Council claims overview committee at the moment affirmed with out remark the state Claims Fee’s refusal to pay $15,000 in lawyer charges to the Corbitt Legislation Agency of Little Rock for representing UALR regulation college member Robert Steinbuch in a Freedom of Data Act lawsuit towards UALR.

In 2015, Steinbuch filed a request for pupil knowledge, together with race, grades and bar examination passage charges. The college supplied redacted data to guard pupil privateness. Steinbuch sued.

The lawsuit went by way of many iterations, however in the end UALR and Steinbuch reached a voluntary settlement. Decide Tim Fox dismissed the lawsuit due to the settlement. He declined to succeed in a call on whether or not Steinbuch had considerably prevailed. Steinbuch stated he did. The college stated he didn’t. Fox stated the query of charges was a Claims Fee challenge.

The Claims Fee dominated unanimously in 2021 that Corbitt wasn’t entitled to lawyer charges absent a circuit courtroom discovering that Steinbuch had considerably prevailed.

Steinbuch appealed to the Arkansas Supreme Court docket, which dominated in April towards Steinbuch’s argument for charges. It quoted Fox’s observation that “the plaintiff precipitated a large waste of judicial time and taxpayer monies.”

The attraction of the Claims Fee denial could not end the seven-year-old disputation. A separate case seeks to get a waiver for report charges charged by the county clerk within the case.

The full record submitted to the legislative committee is here.

 

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