Hughes Bros., Inc. v. Town of Eddington

[¶’1] In this appeal involving Maine’s open government laws, we consider the sometimes competing statutory goals that (1) provide for government meetings to be open to the public, see 1 M.R.S. § 401 (2Ó15), and (2) guard the authority of government officials to receive legal advice in executive session to enable them to perform their duties in accordance with the law, see 1 M.R.S. § 405(6)(E) (2015). Hughes Bros., Inc., appeals from a judgment entered in the Business and Consumer Docket {Murphy, J.) on its complaint seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. 1 Hughes argues, among other…