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CORBETT files suit against Main Medical
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... tests ordered by doctors. The Attorney General's Office said Main
Medical
is in possession of 200,000 medical records and files. ...
<http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_338695.html>

CABELA'S files suit to keep info under wraps
Dallas Business Journal - Dallas,TX,USA
... to the Austin American-Statesman, the suit, filed in state district
court in Travis County, follows a request by the newspaper for documents
relating to ...
<http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2005/05/23/daily49.html?jst=b_ln_hl>

DANCE Archivist's Survivors Are Found
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
Two relatives of Joe Nash, a leading historian of black dance whose
collection
was seized by the city after his death on April 13, have emerged,
lending
hope ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/28/arts/dance/28nash.html>

BRIGHAM document to be sold
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
... For one thing, the will was hand-copied by court clerks who signed
Young's name, as well as those of the witnesses, says LDS archivist
Jeffrey
Johnson. ...<http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2765214>

CITY Unveils Online System To Provide Records, Reports
NBC4.TV - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... the public access to city governmental records and reports ... users
to search City Council files through an index and connect to background
documents by clicking ...
<http://www.nbc4.tv/politics/4541766/detail.html>

JUDGE: $3,000 bill was too high
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
... "That's a very significant finding and very promising for the future
use of FOIA," said John Edwards, publisher of the Smithfield Times and
the newspaper ...
<http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031782976710&path=!news&s=1045855934842>

LIFTING the Information Veil
KanglaOnline - India
... The legislation, which replaces the relatively weak Freedom of
Information
Act 2002 has many salutary provisions that are worth a closer look. ...
<http://www.kanglaonline.com/index.php?template=headline&newsid=975&typeid=0>

STAUNTON man sentenced to 2 years for stealing Civil War papers
WVEC.com (subscription) - Norfolk,VA,USA
... belonging to the American people will not be tolerated," US
Archivist
Allen Weinstein ... also had serious ramifications for the operations
of the archives and is ...
<http://www.wvec.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8AC706O0.html>

Press of Atlantic City, Sat, 28 May 2005 2:09 AM PDT
County archives to be preserved electronically
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/cape/052805ARCHIVESMAY28.cfm
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE - The county Sheriff's Department has 993,000
pages of documents of inmate incarcerations, medical files and piles of
paperwork from the county jail.

STATE sues medical imaging firm
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... abruptly shut down last month, and asked a court to force the firm
to reopen its record storage facilities and release thousands of medical
records to former ...
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05148/512178.stm>

IN a PU room, history lies trapped in rare books
Chandigarh Newsline - Chandigarh,India
... Mritunjaya Kumar, assistant archivist at the library who has also
served
at JNU and The National Archives of India, New Delhi, says that Panjab
University is ...
<http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=131458>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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