New York Times Co. v. Spartanburg County School District No. 7

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• stating FOIA is a statute remedial in nature and must be liberally construed to carry out the purpose mandated by the legislature
• “In interpreting a statute, our primary purpose is to ascertain the intent of the legislature”
• \FOIA must be construed so as to make it possible for citizens to learn and report fully the activities of public officials.\
• “We cannot construe a statute without regard to its plain and ordinary meaning, and this Court may not resort to subtle or forced construction in an attempt to limit or expand a statute’s scope.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).