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← 643 F. Supp. 2d 758 - Ostergren v. McDonnell

643 F. Supp. 2d 758 - Ostergren v. McDonnell’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
December 2010
most recently cited

1 federal appellate ·

Relationships

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Most-quoted passages

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  1. “a permanent injunction ... against enforcement of Va.Code § 59.1^143.2 against any iteration of Ostergren’s website, now or in the future, that simply republishes publicly obtainable documents containing unredacted SSNs of Virginia legislators, Virginia Executive Officers or Clerks of Court as part as [sic] an effort to reform Virginia law and practice respecting the publication of SSNs online.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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