Judge's Family Wants Court to Order GSA to Turn Over Courthouse Records

MIAMI - The family of a magistrate judge who died in 2006 from a pulmonary illness has asked a federal court to order the U.S. General Services Administration to turn over records and correspondence on mold contamination in the federal courthouse in Miami. Klein v. United States General Services Administration, No. 07-23404-CIV-Gold (S.D. Fla.).

The complaint filed on Dec. 28 on behalf of the family of the late Hon. Theodore Klein alleges that the GSA has delayed responding to a Freedom of Information Request from Klein's two children seeking what it termed 42 "specific items," including records of mold testing …