CITY OF GRAND FORKS v. GRAND FORKS HERALD

Civ. No. 9889.

307 N.W.2d 572 (1981)

CITY OF GRAND FORKS, a municipal corporation, Petitioner, Appellant and Cross-Appellee, v. GRAND FORKS HERALD, INC., Respondent and Appellee, S. D. Knutson, Respondent, Appellee and Cross-Appellant.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

June 25, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay H. Fiedler, Asst. City Atty., Grand Forks, for petitioner, appellant and cross-appellee City of Grand Forks.

Thomas John Kuchera, Grand Forks for respondent and appellee Grand Forks Herald, Inc.

Mack, Moosbrugger, Ohlsen, Dvorak, Grand Forks, for respondent, appellee and cross appellant S. D. Knutson; John H. Moosbrugger, Grand Forks, on brief.


PAULSON, Justice.

The City of Grand Forks appeals from a judgment entered against it by the District Court of Grand Forks County on October 29, 1980. The judgment decreed that the Grand Forks Herald had a right to inspect the personnel file of S. D. Knutson, the former chief of police for the City of Grand Forks, because the personnel file maintained by the city's personnel director constituted a "public record" within the meaning of Article XI, § 6 of the North...

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