Fox v. City of Lakewood

The legal question presented by this appeal is whether the private dinner meeting between all members of Lakewood City Council, the mayor, a few Lakewood Hospital officers, and others at which they allegedly discussed a prospective charter amendment authorizing the lease of Lakewood Hospital to a private entity constitutes a violation of any duty to hold open meetings, and, if so, whether such violation invalidates the ordinances, charter amendment, and lease with the Lakewood Hospital Association.

I

Fox’s claims are premised on the open-meeting requirements of Section 5, Article III of the…