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BD. OF TRUSTEES ET AL. v. MISS. PUBLISHERS CORP.

No. 56167.

478 So.2d 269 (1985)

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF STATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING, et al., v. MISSISSIPPI PUBLISHERS CORPORATION.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied November 6, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ed Brunini, Sr., John M. Loper, George P. Hewes, III, Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes, Jackson, for appellant.

W. Scott Welch, III, Luther T. Munford, John C. Henegan, Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, for appellee.

Leonard D. Van Slyke, Jr., Janice Holley Parsons, Thomas, Price, Alston, Jones & Davis, Jackson, Benjamin E. Griffith, Jacobs, Griffith, Eddins & Povall, Cleveland, Stone D. Barefield, Hattiesburg, for amicus curiae.

En Banc.

PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:

Openness in government is the statutorily declared public policy of this state. This appeal challenges the application of that policy to the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning. The basis of this challenge lies in the Board of Trustee's assertion that, as a constitutionally created board, it is prevented from discharging its constitutional responsibilities by the "open meetings" statute and that in certain sensitive...

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