MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Supreme Court says a two-hour hearing before the state's utility-regulating agency wasn't a public meeting under state law.
The decision came Friday as the court rejected a challenge by an audience member who was ejected for recording the gathering last year.
The justices upheld a lower court ruling that said the PSC had a right to remove Laura Casey, a Democrat who was running for the PSC, for recording the proceeding. The decision says the hearing wasn't a meeting under the state's open meeting law because PSC members just listened to testimony and didn't talk among themselves.