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Utah Senate leadership reports settlement after admitting limited open-meetings violation

Utah State Senate · February 19, 1997
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Senate leaders told colleagues they had agreed to a stipulation resolving a year‑old lawsuit alleging the chamber held an improper closed meeting; plaintiffs dropped court supervision demands and claims were dismissed with prejudice, the Senate’s counsel said.

Senate leaders told colleagues on Feb. 19 that a year‑old lawsuit alleging the Senate held an improper closed meeting has been resolved through a stipulation in which the Senate acknowledged a violation and the plaintiffs agreed to drop certain remedies.

The chamber’s presiding officer paused its consent calendar to brief members on the matter after leadership said the Senate had “admitted a violation” of the state open‑and‑public‑meetings law tied to a past closed meeting. Leadership said the violation was not…

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