CONNELLY v. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF HANOVER


409 Mass. 232 (1991)

565 N.E.2d 449

JOHN C. CONNELLY & others vs. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF HANOVER & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

January 24, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Kingston for the defendants.

James C. Heigham for the plaintiffs.

Austin Broadhurst, for Massachusetts Association of School Committees, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Sarah Chapin Columbia, for Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, LYNCH, & GREANEY, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

In this appeal we are asked to decide whether the open meeting law, G.L.c. 39, §§ 23A-23C (1988 ed.),3 applies to the Hanover High School principal selection committee (selection committee), which was appointed by the superintendent of schools of Hanover to assist him in nominating candidates for the position of principal of Hanover High School. A judge of the Superior Court...

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