Forum Publishing Co. v. City of Fargo

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• discussing public’s interest in hiring police chief and receiving information about hiring process
• “We do not believe the open-record law can be circumvented by the delegation of a public duty to a third party, and these documents are not any less a public record simply because they were in the possession of [the city’s contractor].”
• great public interest, and undesirable results of further appeals
• great public interest, and undesirable results of further appeals
• addressing what constitutes a public record

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).