Gannett Pacific Corp. v. City of Asheville

McGEE, Judge.

Asheville Citizen-Times Publishing Company and WLOS-TV (collectively plaintiffs), appeal the trial court’s 29 June 2005 order denying declaratory and injunctive relief in plaintiffs’ action against the City of Asheville (the City) and Buncombe County (the County) (collectively defendants). Plaintiffs alleged defendants violated North Carolina’s Open Meetings Law.

For some time prior to plaintiffs’' filing of the present action, defendants were involved in negotiations concerning the termination of the Regional Water Authority Agreement (the agreement) then in existence between…