Times Publishing Company v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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• \[T]he power or discretion to decide questions of closed meetings for such purposes is no longer the [public agency's] to exercise. . . .\
• \it is the entire decision-making process that the legislature intended to affect by the enactment of the statute before us\
• every step in the decision-making process, including the decision itself, is a necessary preliminary to formal action
• every step in the decision-making process, including the decision itself, is a necessary preliminary to formal action
• Every step in the decision-making process, including the decision itself, is a necessary preliminary to formal action
• courts are not to presume that a given statute employs useless language

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).