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06/09/2020

A Committee of City Employees that Provides Advice to Planning Board Applicants is Not a Public Body under the Right-to-Know Law; 50 Cents Per Page for Copying is Permissible Under 91-A.

Paul Martin v. City of Rochester

New Hampshire Supreme Court Docket No. 2019-0150

06/03/2020

Objective Testimony from Residents, Combined with Personal Knowledge of Observable Facts by Board Members Can Refute Expert Opinions

Three Ponds Resort, LLC v. Town of Milton

New Hampshire Supreme Court Docket No. 2019-0278

05/29/2020

“Internal Personnel Practices” are Not Per Se Exempt from Disclosure, but Exempt if Disclosure is an Invasion of Privacy. “Internal Personnel Practices” are Defined as Internal Rules and Practices Governing Agency’s Operations and Employee Relations

Union Leader Corp. v. Town of Salem

New Hampshire Supreme Court Docket No. 2019-0206

05/29/2020

The “Internal Personnel Practices” Exemption Under RSA 91-A:5, IV Only Applies to Records of the Internal Rules and Practices Governing an Agency’s Operations and Employee Relations, and Not Information Concerning the Performance of a Particular Employee.

Seacoast Newspapers v. Portsmouth

New Hampshire Supreme Court Docket No. 2019-0135

04/24/2020

Three-year Limitation on the Duty of a Municipality to Pay Excess Proceeds from the Sale of Tax Deeded Property is Unconstitutional

Polonsky v. Town of Bedford

New Hampshire Supreme Court Docket No. 2019-0339

04/08/2020

SB 3 Struck Down by the Court as Unconstitutional for Unreasonably Burdening the Right to Vote and Violating Equal Protection Under the New Hampshire Constitution

League of Women Voters v. Gardner

Hillsborough County Superior – Northern District Case No. 226-2017-CV-00433

04/08/2020

Report about Alleged Misconduct by Elected Officials Acting in Their Capacity as Employers not Exempt as Internal Personnel Practice; Members of a Governing Body Cannot be Denied Access to Attorney-Client Communications

Hampstead School District v. SAU #55

Rockingham County Superior Court Docket No. 218-2020-CV-00236

03/17/2020

Employees with Supervisory Duties as Defined in Their Job Descriptions Should Have Been Excluded From a Proposed Collective Bargaining Unit

Appeal of Town of Loudon

New Hampshire Supreme Court Docket No. 019-0229

12/20/2019

Product Specifications of Covert Communications Equipment Used by Police Department Exempt from Disclosure under Right-to-Know Law

ACLU of NH & Concord Monitor v. City of Concord

New Hampshire Superior Court Docket No. 217-2019-CV-00462

10/25/2019

New Hampshire’s Criminal Defamation Statute, RSA 644:11, Declared Unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S Constitution

Frese v MacDonald

U.S. District Court for District of New Hampshire Docket No. 18-cv-1180-JL

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