Akilah Winters:

The judge ruled in favor because she said the district attorney’s office failed to timely provide the requested documents. According to Krause, the law firm is owed those documents and will be awarded attorneys’ fees.

It stemmed from a lawsuit in which Ashleigh Merchant accused the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office of violating the state’s Open Records Act.

The lawsuit accused Willis of “hiding documents” related to a media monitoring company, alleging the district attorney had used taxpayer dollars to pay for it. It also accused the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office of not wholly fulfilling open records related to employees’ nondisclosure agreements.

“She is the elected DA. It’s her office. I think that every government agency has a duty to respond to open records requests. I think when you have an elected official, they are the ones who are held accountable by the public. They are the ones who set the policy,” Merchant, who is Trump co-defendant Michael Roman’s lawyer in the election interference case, said on Monday while testifying on the stand in the case.