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UNIVERSITY SYSTEM v. DR PARTNERS

No. 36984.

18 P.3d 1042 (2001)

UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM OF NEVADA, Jane Nichols, Chancellor, Thalia M. Dondero, Howard Rosenberg, Mark Alden, Jill Derby, Dorothy Gallagher, Douglas Hill, Thomas E. Kirkpatrick, David L. Phillips, Douglas Seastrand, Steve Sisolak, and Tom Wiesner, in their Official Capacities, Appellants, v. DR PARTNERS, a Nevada General Partnership, d/b/a Las Vegas Review Journal, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

March 9, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Ray, General Counsel, and Kwasi Nyamekye, Associate General Counsel, University and Community College System of Nevada, Las Vegas; Brooke Ann Nielsen, Associate General Counsel, University and Community College System of Nevada, Reno, for appellants.

Campbell & Williams, Las Vegas, for respondent.

BEFORE THE COURT EN BANC.

OPINION

ROSE, J.:

The question presented by this appeal is whether the office of community college president is a public office. A presidential search committee wants to interview applicants for the presidency in a closed meeting, but Nevada's open meeting law, NRS chapter 241, prohibits a public body from discussing a public officer's appointment in a closed session. The open meeting law does not define "public office" or "public officer," so the...

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