Ten-day window left for AG to join case

A lawsuit over the e-mail policy of Gov. Matt Blunt might be doomed after a Cole County judge on Friday dismissed the suit on procedural grounds.

In a brief order issued a day after he heard arguments in the case, Judge Richard Callahan said former Missouri State Highway Patrol Superintendent Mel Fisher lacked standing to bring the lawsuit. Fisher, who had been appointed by Attorney General Jay Nixon as an independent investigator, had brought the allegations of Sunshine Law violations on behalf of the state of Missouri.

Callahan's order to dismiss did not entirely close the door on the lawsuit. He gave the plaintiffs 10 days to show that Fisher was ...

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