The University is not only disappointed in Judge Janice Clark’s Thursday ruling but plans to appeal her decision that would force the Board of Supervisors to produce the names of more than 30 candidates considered by the Presidential Search Committee, Board Chairman Hank Danos said in a statement Friday.

Danos said he is confident the decision will be reversed on appeal.

“The ruling orders LSU to do something that is not possible – to produce records not in LSU’s custody or control,” Danos said.

Danos insisted the Board conducted the presidential search “in accordance with a 2006 statute that requires public disclosure when a candidate becomes an actual ‘applicant.’”

“In addition, some press reports that the judge ruled the search was conducted illegally are flatly wrong,” Danos said in the statement. “The judge ruled that certain information must be disclosed, not that the search was conducted illegally.”

Clark’s short minute entry followed the court hearing for the suit filed against the University by the Advocate and NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Thursday.

The publications filed suit after The Daily Reveille Editor in Chief Andrea Gallo’s threatened to file suit unless the Board produced the names. Gallo’s hearing is still scheduled for April 30.