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An appeals court Friday scheduled arguments on April 9 in a lawsuit alleging the Florida Department of Transportation and a contractor did not fully comply with public records requests about controversial state-funded flights of migrants to Massachusetts. Last year, the Florida Center for Government Accountability went to the 1st District Court of Appeal after Leon County Circuit Judge Angela Dempsey dismissed the lawsuit. The center contended in the lawsuit that the Department of Transportation and the contractor, Vertol Systems Company, Inc., violated the state’s public records law by not fu…

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