"no constitutional right to obtain all information provided by FOIA laws."

An appeals court previously ruled that this line meant that Virginia's state agencies could refuse to serve up records to out-of-state residents, and the Supreme Court upheld this limitation, with Justice Samuel Alito providing the ruling, "This Court has repeatedly made clear that there is no constitutional right to obtain all the information provided by FOIA laws." Seven other states also have laws with similarly resident-specific language for FOIA requests: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Tennessee. Interestingly, the court skirted the issue of how this might impact businesses and online FOIA requests, leaving it up to the states and those seeking FOIA requests to sort out. Still, in an age when online forms like those at MuckRock make it easy for anyone across the country to fill out a FOIA request, the decision was a strong reminder that borders still matter.