http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/...ease-findings-past-title-ix-review/340365001/
In response to a public records request for documents related to the 2014 Pepper Hamilton review, MSU said it was withholding five emails and their attachments, citing attorney-client privilege and attorney work-product doctrine. They're the same exemptions MSU cited in redacting from attorney invoices the descriptions of services provided.
Herschel Fink, attorney for the State Journal, said in an email that those exemptions, in his opinion, "are largely – if not entirely – bogus."
"It is inconceivable that every single description of work performed – in its entirety – would be attorney client advice," he wrote. "... This response is abusive, but consistent with MSU’s lack of transparency throughout this ever expanding scandal."
The State Journal plans to appeal MSU's decision to withhold the information
In response to a public records request for documents related to the 2014 Pepper Hamilton review, MSU said it was withholding five emails and their attachments, citing attorney-client privilege and attorney work-product doctrine. They're the same exemptions MSU cited in redacting from attorney invoices the descriptions of services provided.
Herschel Fink, attorney for the State Journal, said in an email that those exemptions, in his opinion, "are largely – if not entirely – bogus."
"It is inconceivable that every single description of work performed – in its entirety – would be attorney client advice," he wrote. "... This response is abusive, but consistent with MSU’s lack of transparency throughout this ever expanding scandal."
The State Journal plans to appeal MSU's decision to withhold the information
