Jones Day Partner on Winning Side of White House E-Mail Ruling
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has refused to dismiss a lawsuit by two nonprofit groups seeking recovery of possibly millions of White House e-mails.
U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy Jr. ruled on Monday that courts have the power to order the White House to retrieve the messages, the Associated Press reports. White House lawyers had argued the Federal Records Act does not provide for judicial review when the administration fails to comply with the law. Kennedy disagreed.
Jones Day partner Sheila Shadmand represents one of the nonprofits, the National Security Archive. Says the Am Law Daily, “Future historians of the Bush administration may someday be thanking Sheila Shadmand of Jones Day in their acknowledgments.”
Shadmand praised the ruling in a press release. “This ruling gives the public a clear voice in demanding preservation of our nation’s history, even when that history is created at the White House,” she said.
