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N.C. PRESS ASS'N, INC. v. SPANGLER

No. 8710SC105.

360 S.E.2d 138 (1987)

87 N.C. App. 169

The NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION, INC., and the News and Observer Publishing Company, d/b/a The News and Observer and The Raleigh Times v. C.D. SPANGLER, Jr., President of The University of North Carolina and Arthur Padilla, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs of the University of North Carolina.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

September 15, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by Andrew A. Vanore, Jr., Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Edwin M. Speas, Jr., Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., and Laura E. Crumpler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for State.

Tharrington, Smith & Hargrove by Wade H. Hargrove, Michael Crowell, and Randall M. Roden, Raleigh, for plaintiffs-appellees.

JOHNSON, Judge.

We are met at the threshold with a problem of mootness. At issue was whether the chancellors' reports were public records under G.S. sec. 132-1 subject to disclosure. Appellants excepted to the trial court's finding that the records were made and received pursuant to law in connection with the transaction of public business by the University, a government agency, and that such records are therefore public and subject to disclosure. However, on 14 November...

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