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HUGHES BROS., INC. v. TOWN OF EDDINGTON

Docket No. BCD-15-94.

130 A.3d 978 (2016)

2016 ME 13

HUGHES BROS., INC. v. TOWN OF EDDINGTON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: January 14, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William B. Devoe, Esq. (orally), and Jonathan A. Pottle, Esq. , Eaton Peabody, Bangor, for appellant Hughes Bros., Inc.

Charles E. Gilbert, III, Esq. (orally), Gilbert & Greif, P.A., Bangor, for appellee Town of Eddington.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, MEAD, GORMAN, JABAR, HJELM, and HUMPHREY, JJ.

[¶ 1] In this appeal involving Maine's open government laws, we consider the sometimes competing statutory goals that (1) provide for government meetings to be open to the public, see 1 M.R.S. § 401 (2015), and (2) guard the authority of government officials to receive legal advice in executive session to enable them...

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