National Conference of State Legislatures, Council of State Governments, et al., Amici Curiae
Stuart A. Raphael, Counsel of Record
The National Conference of State Legislatures and the Council of State Governments are joined in this brief by the International City/County Management Association and the International Municipal Lawyers Association. Stuart A. Raphael is a partner with the law firm Hunton & Williams, where he specializes in State and government law, litigation, product liability, water rights, and constitutional law. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on January 30, 2013. Petitioners overstate the restrictiveness of Virginia’s open-records laws by blurring the distinction between judicial and non-judicial records. Virginia’s citizens-only…