State ex rel. Mobley v. Franklin Cty. Bd. of Commrs.

Summary

The court affirmed dismissal of the mandamus claim as moot because the county board provided the requested record after the action was filed. It also affirmed the denial of statutory damages, holding that the court of appeals did not abuse its discretion in finding that the board reasonably believed, based on existing law, that it had no obligation to respond to a duplicative request previously fulfilled by another county office. The court limited its review to the reasonable-belief issue because the requester had not preserved a challenge to the lower court's two-step statutory-damages analysis.