Kearns-Tribune Corp. v. Salt Lake County Commission

WILKINS, Justice.

T1 This appeal presents the question of whether the Utah Open and Public Meetings Act, Utah Code Ann. §§ 524-1 to -10 (1998), permits the Salt Lake County Commission to close a meeting to the public in order to consider, with legal counsel, possible courses of action with respect to an annexation petition pending before the Salt Lake County Boundary Commission. The parties filed eross motions for summary judgment, and the district court ruled in favor of plaintiff Kearns-Tribune Corporation concluding that by closing the meeting, the Salt Lake County Commission violated the…