Tanner v. Town Council of Town of East Greenwich

How courts have described this case

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• holding that \misleading\ notice can never comply with the statutory purpose of the Open Meetings Act
• stating that, in determining the proper amount of attorneys’ fees to award pursuant to a statute, one factor that the court must consider is “inherent tenets of justice and fairness”
• reducing the amount of the attorneys’ fees and costs to an amount the Court determined would be “just, fair, and proportional”
• reducing the amount of the attorneys’ fees and costs to an amount the Court determined would be “just, fair, and proportional”
• explaining that knowledge is power in the democratic process
• “A party acquires standing either by suffering an injury in fact or as the beneficiary of express statutory authority granting standing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).