John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance v. Vandeventer

How courts have described this case

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

• “Mere possession of a record by a public body does not, however, render it a public record . . . .”
• individual notes of township trustee “on a governmental issue are only a public record when the notes are taken in furtherance of an official function”
• written notes of public body’s employee that were not shared with other employees or entered into official record were not public records

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).