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BLETHEN MAINE NEWSPAPERS v. PORTLAND

Docket: Cum-07-522

947 A.2d 479 (2008)

2008 ME 69

BLETHEN MAINE NEWSPAPERS, INC. v. PORTLAND SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: April 24, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melissa A. Hewey, Esq., (orally,) Peter C. Felmly, Esq., Drummond Woodsum & MacMahon, Portland, for the Portland School Committee.

Jonathan S. Piper, Esq., Sigmund D. Schutz, Esq., Michael Kaplan, Esq. (orally), Preti Flaherty Beliveau, & Pachios, LLC, Portland, for Blethen Maine Newspapers, Inc.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and CLIFFORD, ALEXANDER, LEVY, SILVER, MEAD, and GORMAN, JJ.

CLIFFORD, J.

[¶ 1] The Portland School Committee appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Cole, J.) concluding that portions of an executive session held by the School Committee violated the Freedom of Access Act (FOAA), 1 M.R.S. §§ 401-412 (2007), and that certain notes taken during that session, and a document prepared for that session, are "public records" and therefore subject to public inspection. The School Committee...

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