Phillip Brick News Today

A federal judge has ruled that documents sought by attorneys representing a woman in her lawsuit against the Cabot School District may not be obtained through the use of the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act, although the judge ruled his order does not extend beyond the active participants in the lawsuit.

The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act was front and center Wednesday in a federal court hearing called to determine if attorneys for a Cabot woman banned from public schools in the city will be allowed to access documents from the defendants by using the open-records law instead of going through the normal discovery process.