Beacon Journal Publishing Co. v. City of Akron

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Beacon Journal Publishing Co. vs. City of Akron Number: 70 Ohio St. 3d 605; 1994 Ohio LEXIS 2407 Year: 1965 State: Ohio Court: Ohio Supreme Court Other lawsuits in Ohio Other lawsuits in 1965 Precedents include: Established no common law right to public access of meetings.

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Beacon Journal Publishing Co. v. City of Akron is a 1965 Ohio Supreme Court concerning open meetings.

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The finding in the case was that there is no common law right of public access to governmental meetings in