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FURHMAN v. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION

(SC 15694)

243 Conn. 427 (1997)

LIBA H. FURHMAN ET AL. v. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Officially released December 23, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor R. Perpetua, appellate attorney, with whom, on the brief, was Mitchell W. Pearlman, general counsel, for the appellant (named defendant).

Daniel E. Casagrande, for the appellees (plaintiffs).

Marilyn J. Lipton, Cynthia C. Anger and Tricia J. Johnson, law student intern, filed a brief for the Connecticut Association of Municipal Attorneys, Inc., as amicus curiae.

Mary-Michelle U. Hirschoff filed a brief for the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities as amicus curiae.

Callahan, C. J., and Borden, Berdon, McDonald and Peters, JS.

Opinion

MCDONALD, J.

This appeal concerns a ruling of the freedom of information commission (commission) that portions of a meeting of the New Milford mayor and town council (collectively, town), to discuss the town's response to a landfill permit application pending before the state department of environmental protection (department), should have been held in open session.

The town filed an administrative appeal in the Superior Court, and...

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