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2/21/01

SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA NO. 2000-OB-2517

LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT COMMITTEE ON BAR ADMISSIONS, EX REL. DANIEL A. WEBB, CHAIR VERSUS GARY R. ROBERTS, DANE S. CIOLINO AND ALFREDA TILLMAN BESTER

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING ON PETITION FOR DECLARATORY JUDGMENT

TRAYLOR, J.* In this litigation, the Committee on Bar Admissions has invoked our original jurisdiction and has requested a declaratory judgment regarding issues surrounding its responses to a number of public records requests. Based upon the fact that the issues involved in this litigation have been addressed in large part by our decision in Alfreda Tillman Bester v. Louisiana Supreme Court Committee on Bar Admissions, No. 2000-OB-1360, we deny the request for a declaratory judgment, as well as the reconventional demand filed by respondent Roberts. This controversy principally concerns access to "model answers" or "grading guidelines" prepared by the members of the Committee on Bar Admissions. The Committee has received a number of public records requests from the respondents. Although the Committee responded to the public records requests through counsel,1 it seeks a declaratory judgment that:

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James Gulotta, Associate Justice Pro Tempore, sitting for Lemmon, J.

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Paragraph 8, Petition for Declaratory Judgment.

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