Legal Opinion
City Council v. Hall
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided April 15, 1980PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpeziale, J.
The dispositive issue in this case is whether § 7-194 (26) of the Home Rule Act authorizes a municipality to grant to its governing or legislative body the power to issue subpoenas. We hold that it does not.
The defendant, Jon Hall, is an investigative reporter for the Journal Courier, a daily newspaper. Hall wrote a series of articles about public school lunch programs in the greater New Haven area, including the school lunch program of the city of West Haven. In these articles it was reported, inter alia, that despite its policy requiring competitive bidding for all contracts greater than…
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