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Article: High court mulls BDN case on access to tribal meetings
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- April 13, 2006
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PORTLAND - How the Maine Supreme Judicial Court defines the
functions of governing most likely will determine when Maine's Indian
tribes are subject to the state's Freedom of Access Act, justices on
the state's high court indicated Wednesday.
Justices asked pointed questions Wednesday about what constitutes
governing when they heard oral arguments in the appeal of a Superior
Court verdict that found the Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Reservation
did not have to give reporters access to its tribal meetings or
minutes of those meetings.
The Bangor Daily News and the Quoddy Tides sued the reservation
when its reporters were told they could not attend tribal council
meetings or see the minutes of ...