GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE CO., INC. v. DAY

No. 98-216.

959 P.2d 508 (1998)

1998 MT 133

GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE COMPANY, INC., Petitioner and Appellant, v. Rick DAY, and the State of Montana, Department of Corrections, Respondents and Cross-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Submitted May 26, 1998.

Decided May 29, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Michael Meloy (argued), Meloy & Morrison, Helena, for Appellant.

Diana P. Leibinger-Koch (argued), Matthew A. Robertson, and David L. Ohler, Montana Department of Corrections, Helena, for Respondent.

Dal Smilie, Chief Legal Counsel, Montana Department of Administration, Helena, for Amicus.


TRIEWEILER, Justice.

¶ 1 The petitioner, Great Falls Tribune Company, Inc., filed a petition in the District Court for the First Judicial District in Lewis and Clark County in which it sought an order restraining the respondent, Rick Day, as Director of the Department of Corrections for the State of Montana, from excluding members of the public from meetings of the Department's Private Prison Screening and Evaluation Committee. The District Court held that neither...

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