By: The Reno Gazette-Journal is appealing a judge's decision to deny public access to nearly 100 e-mails sent by Gov. Jim Gibbons from his state account.
The appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court stems from Carson City District Judge Todd Russell's order last month that Gibbons turn over only six of 104 e-mails requested by the newspaper under the state's public records law.
The judge found that the remaining 98 e-mails were confidential under Nevada law.
The Gazette-Journal also is appealing Russell's decision denying its request for a log describing the protected e-mails so it could independently assess whether they were exempt from state law.
The newspaper filed suit against the Gibbons administration in October after his general counsel denied the paper's public records request for access to six months of e-mail correspondence between Gibbons and 10 individuals.
State attorneys countered that the e-mails weren't public records. They also said there were no e-mails in a January-June 2008 time frame between
Gibbons and five of the 10 people listed in the lawsuit.
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