· 2/15/1974
Channel 10, Inc. v. Independent School District No. 709
Citations
- 215 N.W.2d 814
- 298 Minn. 306
- 1974 Minn. LEXIS 1479
How courts have described this case
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- holding that individuals within group of persons whom open-meeting statute was designed to protect, by assuring that meeting of school boards would be open, have standing in action to restrain school board from violating open-meeting law
- upholding injunctive relief ordered against school board, noting that public body that closed meetings in violation of open meeting law may be enjoined without statutory enabling provision
- allowing television station to sue to enforce civil open meeting statute
- declining to adopt blanket exception to open meeting law for attorney-client privilege
- the machinery of justice would be adversely affected if clients were not free to discuss legal matters with their attorneys without fear of disclosure
- the machinery of justice would be adversely affected if clients were not free to discuss legal matters with their attorneys without fear of disclosure
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Judges: Kelly, Sheban, Yetka, Scott
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