As court orders go, a Cook County judge’s recent decision to make Chicago Public Schools officials turn over the so-called “LaRaviere files” don’t rank up there with, say, the U.S. Supreme Court compelling President Nixon to release the White House tapes.

Stop laughing.

Thus, he entered a circle of hell known as the FOIA maze.

For months, Burt got no response, so he hired a lawyer, Daniel Massoglia. And on September 7 he filed a lawsuit in Cook County court, aiming to force CPS to turn over the information.

Mason: And he lectures.