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Fees for intervenors

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Supreme Court ordered a lower court to reconsider its denial of attorney fees requested by a reporter who intervened in a county commissioner’s challenge to a release of public records. The attorney fee provision of the Government Records Access and Management Act does not necessarily bar fee awards to third-party intervenors, such as the journalist.

Read the ruling here.

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