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Cole County judge considers dismissal of e-mail lawsuit
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Daily Record and the Kansas City Daily News-Press
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July 11, 2008
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A Cole County judge was urged Thursday to dismiss a lawsuit over
the state e-mail retention policy of Gov. Matt Blunt's office.
Blunt's lawyer, John Holstein, a former state Supreme Court judge
who is now in private practice, argued that there was no provision
in state law for the lawsuit brought in the case. The suit was filed
in May by Mel Fisher, a former superintendent of the Missouri State
Highway Patrol who was appointed as an independent investigator in
the matter.
A lawsuit filed by Fisher accuses Blunt's office of violating the
state Sunshine Law. The suit stemmed from the firing last year of a
Blunt attorney named Scott Eckersley.
Eckersley contends in a separate defamation ...
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