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Court orders state board to ignore sunshine law in testimony before federal monitoring committee

Article Abstract:

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled in In re Kansas City Star Co. that attendance at a federal agency meeting by the Kansas City, MO School District Board of Directors did not implicate the Missouri Sunshine Act. The periodic meetings with the Desegregation Monitoring Committee was pursuant to a court order. Since the meetings were ordered by a federal court, the state law did not apply. The 8th Circuit noted that the monitoring court must ensure that the meetings are limited to discussions of issues dictated by the continuing desegregation order.

Laws, regulations and rules, Missouri, Public meetings

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News show enjoined from following executives: 'Inside Edition' story on U.S. Healthcare draws fire from Court

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A federal district court issued an injunction in early April barring producer Paul Lewis and reporter Steve Wilson from videotaping or following two US Healthcare executives and their children. The television news program Inside Edition began following and trying to videotape or audiotape Nancy Wolfson, daughter of US Healthcare CEO Leonard Abramson, and her husband Richard; both are executives at the HMO. They have since filed claims against the journalists, who are doing an expose on HMO executives' salaries.

Media coverage, U.S. Healthcare Inc., USHC, Inside Edition (Television program)

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Court orders release of harassment report

Article Abstract:

The Montana Supreme Court ruled in Citizens to Recall Mayor James Whitlock v. Whitlock that a Montana mayor accused of sexually harassing a municipal judge had no right to privacy with respect to a report on the harassment charge commissioned by the city. The people's right to know was held to exceed any individual privacy rights.

Investigations, Sexual harassment

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