State Ex Rel. Newspapers Inc. v. Showers

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• holding that a meeting of a governmental body does not occur unless \the number of members present [is] sufficient to determine the parent body's course of action\
• holding that a meeting of a governmental body does not occur unless \the number of members present [is] sufficient to determine the parent body's course of action\
• holding that when government officials gather either formally or informally to engage in governmental business and the group has the potential to determine the outcome of the matter under discussion, the gathering is governed by the open meetings law
• stating that the open meetings law is ambiguous regarding how many members of a governmental body must be present for a “meeting” to occur and discussing the “the legislative 11 No. 2024AP1220 history, purpose, and broader context” of the open meetings law in resolving this issue
• “Common sense also tells us ... that if proxies .are present so as to realistically make-up a majority, the Open Meeting Law applies.”
• “Common sense also tells us . . . that if proxies are present so as to realistically make-up a majority, the Open Meeting Law applies.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).