Fair Share Housing Center, Inc. v. New Jersey State League of Municipalities

How courts have described this case

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• holding that through inclusion of “instrumentality” in definition, plain language of public-records act “places the [entity] squarely within the term ‘public agency’ ”
• stating we \need pay no deference to legal conclusions reached by the trial court\
• “If the statute’s plain language reveals the Legislature’s intent, we need proceed no further.”
• “Only if the League of Municipalities qualifies as a ‘public agency’ that maintains ‘government record[s]’ under OPRA must it then respond to the document requests made by Fair Share Housing Center, Inc.”
• “Only if the League of Municipalities qualifies as a ‘public agency’ that maintains ‘government record[s]’ under OPRA must it then respond to the document requests made by Fair Share Housing Center, Inc.”
• applying generally accepted meaning of “instrumentality” for purposes of OPRA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).