Gosnell v. Hogan

PRESIDING JUSTICE WELCH

delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal is from a judgment entered July 2, 1987, in the circuit court of Madison County, denying plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary injunction and petition for permanent injunction to prohibit defendants from continuing their alleged violations of the Open Meetings Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 102, pars. 41 through 46).

This action was initiated by plaintiffs David Gosnell and East Side Publications. East Side Publications is a publisher of a newspaper circulated in and near Granite City, Illinois, and David Gosnell is a reporter…