A federal magistrate judge has struck down a 100-plus year old Texas statute authorizing the state’s attorney general to investigate certain businesses and organizations for violating state laws.
Judge Mark Lane of the Western District of Texas said his decision “wasn’t that hard” because Texas’ Request to Examine statute doesn’t expressly allow a served party to pursue pre-compliance judicial review before producing requested records.
Lane announced the decision at the end of a hearing Friday, siding with Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., a Kansas-based manufacturer for Boeing 737 jets that the state is investigating for alleged misrepresentations about its parts.
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