Weston v. Carolina Research & Development Foundation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that private business enterprises \that receive payment from public bodies in return for supplying specific goods or services on an arms length basis\ are not subject to the state's sunshine laws
• finding the FOIA applies when an \organization undertakes the management of the expenditure of public funds\
• foundation operated for benefit of public university which receives and expends public funds subject to open records law
• foundation operated for benefit of public university which receives and expends public funds subject to open records law
• “[T]his decision does not mean that the [open-records act] would apply to business enterprises that receive payment from public bodies in return for supplying specific goods or services on an arms length basis.”
• The Act applies “when a block of public funds is diverted en masse from a public body to a related organization, or when the related organization undertakes management of the expenditure of public funds.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).