Legal Opinion
Great Falls Tribune Co., Inc. v. Day
Montana Supreme Court
Decided May 29, 1998No. 98-216PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trieweiler
¶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 the petitioner nor other members of the public had a right to observe the deliberations of the committee during the negotiation phase of its work, but…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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- Great Falls Tribune v. District Court of Eighth Judicial DistrictMontana Supreme Court · 1980
- Missoulian v. Board of Regents of Higher EducationMontana Supreme Court · 1984
- Associated Press v. Board of Public EducationMontana Supreme Court · 1991
- Common Cause v. Statutory Committee to Nominate Candidates for Commissioner of Political PracticesMontana Supreme Court · 1994
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