City of Atlanta v. Pacific & Southern Company, Inc.
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City of Atlanta v. Pacific & Southern Company, Inc. was a case before the Georgia Supreme Court in 1987 concerning the application of open meetings laws to municipal bodies.
Background
City of Atlanta v. Pacific & Southern Company, Inc., 257 Ga. 587 (1987) (per curiam): Appeal by the City of Atlanta of an order requiring that any meeting of the Atlanta Public Safety Committee at which the so-called "Alice Bond" report was to be discussed must be open to the public. The Court affirmed the decision of the trial court (Eldridge, J.) that the meeting must be open, holding that the meeting was required to be open by the Charter of the City of Atlanta, which provides that "All meetings of the council and of its committees shall be open for attendance as provided by law." The Court emphasized that this provision leaves "no room for closed meetings." The Court did not consider the Open Meetings Act.[1]
