Access to public records in Delaware, which is home to thousands of nationwide corporations, cannot be limited to state residents only, a federal judge ruled Friday.
U.S. District Judge Joseph J. Farnan Jr. granted summary judgment in favor of a New York consumer activist who filed a lawsuit after he was denied access to records in Delaware through the state's Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA.
"Thank God for the Constitution," said Matthew Lee, executive director of Inner City Press, a small New York nonprofit publisher and advocacy group. "It's been a long time coming."
Lee's attorney, Richard McKewen of the Georgetown University Law Center Institute for Public Representation, said Delaware's denial of access was "not only unconstitutional, it was unconscionable," given the number of multinational banks and companies incorporated in the state.
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