From the ruling:
“Upholding a lower-court ruling, the Virginia Supreme Court said releasing the emails would have put UVA “at a competitive disadvantage in relation to private universities and colleges.”
What is there not to understand?
By all your logic, anybody who has endowed a public university should have access to internal communications. Had Mr. Mann broke the law or conspired to break the law, yes I can see the DA or the US attorney having priviledge and access to the email.
By no means was Mr. Mann an employee of the the Government. He was a (visiting) professor as the government merely appoints the regents and provides endowments and approves the charter.
My assertion stands. Good decision. Correct decision.
“By all your logic, anybody who has endowed a public university should have access to internal communications.”
By my logic, anyone who works at a public university should have as much transparency to his emails as I had when working for the military. I think anyone who thinks their emails are private and undiscoverable is an idiot, because anyone can forward your email to anyone. Do you really believe my email as a private citizen is not open to discovery, if it might apply to a legal case?
My assertion stands. Bad decision.