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The guts of Colorado’s open meeting law were chewed over in a courtroom Friday, as a judge heard arguments over whether the board of education in Douglas County violated state statute in how it sacked former Superintendent Corey Wise earlier this month.

The guts of Colorado’s open meetings law were pulled out, inspected and chewed over in a courtroom Friday, as a judge heard arguments over whether the board of education in Douglas County violated state statute in how itDouglas County District Judge Jeffrey Holmes announced at the end of the more than three-hour hearing that he would issue a written ruling on a lawsuit requesting a preliminary injunction to keep the board from violating the open meetings law in the future.

Wise was told last month that if he did not resign “four members of the had already collectively decided” to terminate his contract, according to the motion for a preliminary injunction, which seeks to stop the directors from holding a series of small meetings to discuss board business privately.

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