Comment by dmurray
2 months ago
> this part of the case is settled.
Maybe for this case, but it sounds like enough hinges on the details of the system that in another database, a court could uphold that there "would" be jeopardy instead of there "could" be. So you won on the more fragile part of the ruling.
On the other hand, interpreting the law as exempting database schemas is something that can be applied to any computer system, and it presumably sets a binding precedent (I'm not familiar with Illinois jurisprudence, but that's how I'd expect something called the State Supreme Court to work) so losing on that point is worse for future cases.
Losing on what point? Everybody agrees it is bad schemas are per se exempt from FOIA. On the security concerns of releasing schemas, we won in basically every court.