DELAWARE SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY v. NEWS-JOURNAL


480 A.2d 628 (1984)

DELAWARE SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. The NEWS-JOURNAL COMPANY, Nancy Kesler, Eleanor Shaw, Plaintiffs Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: July 9, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. Barry Guerke, Parkowski, Noble & Guerke, P.A., Dover, for appellant.

Harvey Bernard Rubenstein, Wilmington, for appellees.

Before HERRMANN, Chief Justice, MOORE and CHRISTIE, Justices.


MOORE, Justice:

This case arises under the Delaware Freedom of Information Act (the Act). The principal issue is whether standing committees of a State agency are public bodies under section 10002(a) of the Act, and thus subject to its open meeting provisions.1 This is the first time we have spoken on the subject. The News-Journal Company, a publisher of Wilmington newspapers, and two of its reporters (collectively,

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