National Collegiate Athletic Ass'n v. Associated Press

How courts have described this case

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• observing that “public records law is not limited to paper documents but that it applies, as well, to documents that exist only in digital form”
• accepting the general premise that a document is not “received” within the meaning of the public records law merely because it is viewed by an agent of the state
• the term “received” applies when “a public agent examines a document residing on a remote computer”
• “The right to inspect a public record in Florida is not one that is merely established by legislation, it is a right demanded by the people.... Florida courts construe the public records law liberally in favor of the state’s policy of open government.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).