Podesta v. Rogers

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an agency’s failure to provide all bases for its denial of a request does not bar it from asserting different bases before OOR
• holding that an agency’s failure to provide all bases for its denial of a request does not bar it from asserting different bases before OOR
• holding that an agency does not waive the ability to assert a reason for denying a RTKL request on appeal by omitting the reason from the initial response
• holding that “a client’s identity is generally not privileged,” though “the attorney-client privilege may apply in cases where divulging the client’s identity would disclose either the legal advice given or the confidential communications provided”
• holding per se waiver of defenses not raised in Section 903 denial is inconsistent with the RTKL
• sanctioning, after in camera review, the redaction of exempted material within certain documents and the release or disclosure of non-exempted information within those same documents

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