A win for open documents
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The Ohio Supreme Court offered decisions favouring the policy of open-government in several lawsuits, and emphasized the importance of public scrutiny of government documents. The court strongly supported an environmental health director, who sued some county commissioners for providing inadequate and incomplete details of minutes. The justices ordered payment of legal fees exceeding $ 100,000 to the director. In another case, the court ordered government officials to make some public documents available to a newspaper, and pay $ 43,000 to the newspaper for lawyer fees.
Publication Name: The IRE Journal
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0164-7016
Year: 1996
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Student has right to open hearing over teacher's aide's objections
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The Iowa Supreme Court in Schumacher v. Lisbon School Board of Education granted a student an open hearing to protest his one-day suspension from school. The suspension resulted from a conflict between the student and a teacher's aide. The aide petitioned for a closed hearing, claiming an open hearing would damage her reputation. Closed hearings are granted when determining an employee's competency. The state Supreme Court ruled the hearing concerned student suspension, not employee competency, and the student had a right to an open hearing.
Publication Name: News Media & the Law
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0149-0737
Year: 1998
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Public has right to be present during civil trials
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The California Supreme Court upheld a public right to attend civil trials in KNBC-TV, Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County and gave guidelines for the limited circumstances when such trials should be closed. Although the US Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld such a public right for criminal trials, it has not affirmed a similar constitutional right for civil ones.
Publication Name: News Media & the Law
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0149-0737
Year: 1999
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