Court rules in favor of Palin in e-mail case

Court rules in favor of Palin in e-mail case

Posted: Jan 22, 2010 7:04 PM CST
Updated: Jan 22, 2010 8:38 PM CST

by Andrew Hinkelman
Friday, January 22, 2010

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A Superior Court judge ruled on Friday in favor of former Gov. Sarah Palin in a lawsuit over her use of personal e-mail accounts to conduct state business.

But while Judge Patrick McKay writes that Palin did not violate the law, his 14-page ruling frequently empathizes with the Andree McLeod, a frequent Palin critic who filed the lawsuit.

McKay concluded, among other things, that "not all emails relating to state business are necessarily public records, and that the "use of private email accounts to conduct state business does not -- in and of itself -- violate state law."

A preliminary injunction issued Oct. 10, 2008 requiring Palin to "preserve for the duration of the litigation all emails whose content relates in any way to official state business" was also terminated. Palin "may revert to the procedures outlined in state statutes and GARRS (General Administrative Records Retention Schedule)."

McLeod filed the lawsuit in October of 2008 while Palin was campaigning for vice president.

Most (if not all) of the lawsuits have gone in Sarah Palin's favor, and IMHO, were frivolous. I am glad that this one also was ruled in her favor. But in this entire article, the sentence that struck me MOST is one that MORE JUDGES, especially those in the higher courts, should adhere to, but don't... examples of decisions that have MADE LAWS are easy to find, but the most famous is Roe v Wade, Jan 22, 1973, and more recently those states where same sex marriage has been ruled to be the law of the State even when the people have voted against it.

What is that statement she wrote into her decision? It is the LAST ONE OF THE ARTICLE.....

"It is not this court's job to legislate a ban to a lawful practice."

The rest of the article is interesting, and can be found here:

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