State ex rel. McDougald v. Greene
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The Supreme Court denied Jerone McDougald's original action for a writ of mandamus to compel Larry Greene, the administrative assistance for the warden at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, to produce two public records and denied McDougald's request for an award of court costs and for statutory damages, holding that McDougald's request for a writ of mandamus was moot and that McDougald was not entitled to statutory damages.
After McDougald filed his complaint for a writ of mandamus, Greene provided both documents to McDougald. Therefore, the Supreme Court dismissed the mandamus claim seeking those documents. The Supreme Court also denied McDougald's request for an award of statutory damages, holding (1) because McDougald did not deliver his two public-record requests by one of the qualifying statutory delivery methods, he was not entitled to an award of statutory damages; and (2) McDougald was not entitled to an award of court costs.
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