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...officials signal their vote or try to sway their colleagues outside of the public gatherings where decisions are made. Mark Anfinson, a lawyer for the Minnesota Newspaper Association, said he agreed with the goals of the bill but echoed Hanson's...
...wrote as an at-will employee Braam was discharged without cause and no disciplinary action was taken. At the time Mark Anfinson, attorney for the Minnesota Newspaper Association, said he believed Pequot Lakes city officials were in violation...
...Good intentions, when push comes to shove, are inadequate when it comes to the public's right to know,'' said Mark Anfinson, attorney for the Minnesota Newspaper Association. That group and others had opposed the change when a bill was before...
...All the terrible predictions that public access would do little good but lots of harm have not come true," said Mark Anfinson, attorney for the Minnesota Newspaper Association and a member of a committee that has advised the Supreme Court...
...that if they willfully lie they can't count on the reporter privilege to protect them." Wakefield's attorney, Mark Anfinson, said the coach failed to prove the statements were false or were made with actual malice. Nevertheless, he said...
...Adolphson argues. "This is how society is going." The Minnesota Newspaper Association is fighting the bill. Mark Anfinson, the association's attorney, said the change wouldn't save much for governments but would greatly reduce the...
...The core of this case is the issue of Sandra King's discipline and what access we get to that information," said Mark Anfinson, an attorney representing The Free Press. County Administrator Dennis McCoy said there was a high probability the...
...law. The attorney advising the city in the BACP threat said the meeting falls under attorney-client privilege. Mark Anfinson, attorney for the Minnesota Newspaper Association, said he believes closing the meeting would be illegal. Anfinson...
...newspaper considered public. "This certainly, in terms of Minnesota open records law, is a landmark ruling," said Mark Anfinson, the attorney representing The Free Press. Brown County District Court Judge John Rodenberg ruled in May that most...
...had sided with Wakefield. Although Wakefield could try to take his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, his attorney Mark Anfinson considers such a move unlikely. "I'm extremely disappointed with the decision," said Wakefield, 73, who is...