Cardinale v. City of Atlanta, et al.
Annotate this CaseAppellant, pro se, brought an action in the trial court against the City, the City Council, and the City's Municipal Clerk (appellees) alleging violations of Georgia's Open Meetings Act, OCGA 50-14-1 et seq. Appellant alleged that the minutes of a Council meeting in February 2010 omitted certain information concerning the outcome of a non-roll-call vote in violation of subsection (e)(2), namely the names of council members who voted, in the minority, to amend rather than maintain certain Council rules. The court found that the Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation of the Act, which must be broadly construed. Therefore, the court reversed in part and concluded that only that portion of appellant's complaint seeking to impose criminal liability upon the individual defendants was properly dismissed.
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