On January 10 the RA Court of Cassation declined the suit of Yerevan municipality, challenging the previous ruling of the RA Court of Appeals of December 1, 2004. According to this ruling, the body of the secondary jurisdiction secured the suit of “Investigative Journalists” NGO against the Yerevan municipality, obliging the latter to prove the organization with the documents necessary for a journalistic investigation (see YPC Weekly Newsletter, November 26 – December 2, 2004). As it has been reported, “Investigative Journalists” demanded the Yerevan municipality to present the copies of the resolutions it made 1997-2003 on the construction in the public green zone around the National Opera and Ballet Theater. In June and September 2004 this demand was rejected by the courts of primary and secondary jurisdiction. In October the Court of Cassation redirected the case to a repeated consideration of the Court of Appeals (the new composition), which secured the suit of “Investigative Journalists” in December.
