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Cases and Compliance Board Opinions

The Associated Press, Bozeman Daily Chronicle, The Montana Standard, Missoulian, Great Falls Tribune, Montana Newspaper Association, Montana Broadcasters Association, The Billings Gazette, The Daily Inter Lake, Montana Television Network, Eagle Television Network, Havre Daily News, Helena Independent Record, and Yellowstone Newspapers v. Richard A. Crofts, in his official capacity as Montana Commissioner of Higher Education, 321 Mont. 193; 89 P.3d 971 (May 19, 2004), http://www.lawlibrary.state.mt.us/dscgi/ds.py/Get/File-30593/03-239.doc.

Dewey v. Redevelopment Agency of Reno, 64 P.3d 1070 (Nev. March 14, 2003).

Kleitman v. Superior Court, 74 Cal. App. 4th 324, 87 Cal. Rptr. 2d 813 (6th Dist. August 18, 1999), modified on Denial of Rehearing (September 9, 1999).

Shapiro v. San Diego City Council, 96 Cal. App. 4th 904, 117 Cal. Rptr. 2d 631 (4th Dist. March 5, 2002).

Maryland Compliance Board Opinion 99-11, August 12, 1999, http://www.oag.state.md.us/Opinions/Open1999/om99-11.pdf.

Attorney General Opinions

Hawaii Opinion Letter No. 05-11 (April 27, 2005), 2005 Office of the Information Practices, Hawaii.

Iowa Opinion No. 98-4-4(L) (April 17, 1998), Office of the Attorney General, State of Iowa.

Maryland Opinion, 89 Md. Op. Atty. Gen. 22 ( 2004).

Nevada Opinion, 2005 Nev. Op. Atty. Gen. Opinion No. 2005-05 (March 31, 2005) and Opinion No. 2005-08 (July 12, 2005).

Law Reviews

Nuckolls, Kansas Sunshine Law; How Bright Does It Shine Now? The Kansas Open Meetings and Open Records Acts, 72 J. Kan. B.A. 28 (2003).

Reiman, In Congress Electric: The Need For On-Line Parliamentary Procedure, 18 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 963 (2000).

Comment: Sunshine In Cyberspace? Electronic Deliberation And The Reach Of Open Meeting Laws, 48 St. Louis L.J. 755 (2004) at 757 n8. “As suggested by the title, this reference provides an in-depth discussion of all aspects of open meeting laws.”

State and Municipality Manuals

Maryland Open Meetings Act Manual, Maryland Understanding the Open Meeting Law: Attorney General (2000), http://www.oag.state.md.us/Forms/openmtg.pdf.

Nevada Open Meeting Law Manual, Attorney General George J. Chanos, Tenth Edition, December 2005, http://ag.state.nv.us/menu/action_bttn/units/oml/omlmanual.pdf.

Understanding the Open Meeting Law: A Handbook from Norfolk County, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, http://www.mass.gov/da/norfolk/PDF%20Brochures/openmeetinglaw.pdf.

Articles and Presentations

McLendon, Gilchrist & Hearn, State Open-Meetings and Open-Records Laws in Higher Education: An Annotated Bibliography (2003), http://www.usc.edu/dept/chepa/pdf/governance_bib.pdf:

This 727-page reference guide, a second edition, provides a comprehensive survey, description, and classification of open-meetings laws in the fifty states. Following an overview of the constitutional context in which state open-meetings laws have arisen in the U.S., Schwing annotates state statutes as they pertain to each of the following topics: entities subject to open-meetings laws; mechanical details of open-meetings laws; meetings, quorums, deliberations, and voting; executive laws; defenses to actions under open-meetings laws; the process of open meeting litigation; and, attorneys fees, defense, and reimbursement. For those interested in the application of state open-meetings laws to higher education, the most pertinent and valuable sections of Schwing’s volume are pages 59-69, which detail open-meetings provisions governing state educational institutions, particularly colleges and universities. Regents, Show Us the Sausage, A primer on open meetings laws, Damon Hodge, Las Vegas Weekly, Feb 5-11, 2005.

Observations after Three Decades of Open Meetings, C. Robert Heath, Bickerstaff, Heath, Smiley, Pollan, Kever & McDaniel, L.L.P., Presented at the National Education Law Association Conference, November 1998, http://www.bickerstaff.com/articles/openm9811.htm

Reporter invokes her state’s public-records laws — and triumphs, Isabelle Gan, Special to chipsquinn.org, Posted: March 18, 2004, http://www.chipsquinn.org/voices/diaries/diaries.aspx?id=313.

Appendices to Openness & Transparency, Appendix A, California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law: Features Of Member Access to Information & Decision-Making, Leon Koay And Michael Richardson, Harvard Law School, October 31, 1999, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/workshops/LA/papers/appendix.html.

Making Municipal Government More Accountable:The Need for an Open Meetings Law in Ontario, Information and Privacy Commissioner Ontario, Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D., Commissioner, Tom Mitchinson, Assistant Commissioner, October 2003, http://www.ipc.on.ca/docs/open-mtg.pdf.

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