Adams County Record v. Greater North Dakota Ass'n

SANDSTROM, Justice.

This appeal questions if North Dakota’s open records law, Art. XI, § 6, N.D. Const., and N.D.C.C. § 44-04-18, applies to the Greater North Dakota Association (GNDA), a private, nonprofit corporation. The trial court granted summary judgment denying an application for mandamus, because GNDA was not a public or governmental organization.

We reverse and remand for trial, holding there are genuine issues of material fact as to whether GNDA is an organization supported in part by public funds, and thus subject to the open records law.

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