In the national war of litigation to hang on to the tradition of open courts, this news service won a key victory Monday in the Northwest where a federal judge handed down a broad ruling that enjoined Idaho’s top court official from withholding public documents.
Since her courts moved to electronic filing, the chief court administrator in Idaho, Sarah Omundson, has been withholding new court pleadings. She holds them back for a day or a few days and turns them into old news.
“The Court herby enters a declaratory judgment that Omundson’s policy is unconstitutional. She is preliminarily and permanently enjoined from continuing any process that denies CNS timely access to new non-confidential civil complaints,“ wrote U.S. District Court Judge David Nye.
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