11.   The Houston Chronicle obtained a copy of the subpoena from the attorney general under an open records request.

12.   The Kennedy e-mail was included in documents that became public early this summer after an Austin-based environmentalist, Peter Altman, filed an open records request.

13.   The letter, obtained by the Boston Globe through a federal public records request, was never shared with the Weld administration.

14.   The open records bill would streamline the process that the attorney general must follow to decide whether a governmental body must grant an open records request.

15.   The Seattle Post-Intelligencer obtained the reports through a public records disclosure request to the health department.

16.   The White House, which has sought to portray the records request as a partisan witch hunt, plans to fight vigorously against the lawsuit.

17.   Through sources and public records requests to funders, the Globe identified at least three over-budget WGBH programs.

18.   A separate subpoena was sent to the Elections Department, which released a copy of the subpoena to The Times-Picayune after a public records request.

19.   American Express spokeswoman Judy Tenzer said it was too early to comment because the company had not seen the records request.

20.   The next day, a reporter from the Orlando Sentinel made a public records request for them.