In re Whitley

How courts have described this case

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• holding that court must find a will ful, knowing, and substantial violation of the VFOIA in order to infer that future violations are likely enough to justify injunctive relief
• finding that penalty “unjustified where a public body had acted in good faith”
• characterizing the fee ruling in Nageotte as grounded in a number of factors, including the petitioners’ pro se status
• setting forth the standards for the trial court to apply on remand when considering the availability of injunctive relief, civil penalties, and attorney fees under FOIA
• if plaintiff substantially prevails, error not to award attorney’s fees and costs

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).