Court of Appeals Decision on E-mail and the Open Meetings Act

In a judicial challenge to a zoning decision by the Metro Nashville Council, plaintiffs challenged that the open meetings act was violated in part by metro council member e-mail correspondence related to the issue. The Court of Appeals found that the email correspondence constituted a violation of the Open
Meetings Act, but the legislative body engaged in a “new and substantial reconsideration” of the issues in the final meeting so as to cure the violation.

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