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HINDS CTY. BD. OF SUP'RS v. COMMON CAUSE

No. 58177.

551 So.2d 107 (1989)

HINDS COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, Roger Stewart, George Smith, Hershel Wilbourn, Walter Dennis, Bennie Thompson and Frank Bryan v. COMMON CAUSE OF MISSISSIPPI, Roberta Madden, Rims Barber, Barbara Powell, John Guest and Mississippi Publishers' Corporation.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied November 15, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Walker, Nausead Stewart, Walker & Walker, Frank T. Moore, Jr., John Robert White, Wells, Moore, Simmons, Stubblefield & Neld, Michael S. Allred, Edwin Y. Hannan, Satterfield & Allred, Jackson, for appellants.

Thomas W. Tardy, III, Leonard D. Van Slyke, Jr., Terryl K. Rushing, Thomas, Price, Alston, Jones & Davis, Charles H. Ramberg, Elizabeth Gilchrist, Jackson, for appellees.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and ROBERTSON and SULLIVAN, JJ.

HAWKINS, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

This case involves the Hinds County Board of Supervisors which was under a chancery court injunction to comply with the Open Meetings Act, Miss. Code Ann. § 25-41-1, et seq., Ch. 481, Laws 1975, and the record reveals well over fifty violations of the Act and the Consent Decree placing the Board under the injunction. Two of the Board members agreed that the Consent Decree had been violated, and contended they endeavored...

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