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MULTIMEDIA PUB. OF N.C. v. HENDERSON COUNTY

No. COA99-520.

525 S.E.2d 786 (2000)

MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING OF NORTH CAROLINA, INC., d/b/a Asheville Citizen Times Publishing Company, a North Carolina Corporation, Plaintiff, v. HENDERSON COUNTY and Henderson County Board of Commissioners, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

February 15, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelly & Rowe, P.A., by James Gary Rowe, Asheville, for plaintiff-appellant.

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, by Tyrus V. Dahl, Jr., Winston-Salem, for defendant-appellees.

Everett Gaskins Hancock & Stevens, by Hugh Stevens and C. Amanda Martin, Raleigh, on behalf of the North Carolina Press Foundation, North Carolina Press Association, Burlington Times-News, Charlotte Observer, Durham Herald-Sun, Gaston Gazette, Greenville Daily Reflector, Hendersonville Times-News, Raleigh News & Observer, Paxton Media Group of North Carolina, Rocky Mount Telegram, Shelby Star, and Wilmington Morning Star/Star-News, amici curiae.

James B. Blackburn, III, Raleigh, on behalf of the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners, amicus curiae.

LEWIS, Judge.

Walt Whitman once penned, "I think heroic deeds were all conceiv'd in the open air." Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road, in Leaves of Grass, stanza 4, line 11 (Random House 1993) (1855). The North Carolina General Assembly has apparently agreed. As government service is no doubt an "heroic deed," our legislature has implemented the Open Meetings Law, which mandates that all "official meeting...

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