City has to pay Jackson paper $13K
Chancery Judge Denise Owens ordered the City of Jackson to pay nearly $13,000 in fees to cover more than half of The Clarion-Ledger’s legal costs in its lawsuit against the City Clerk’s office, City Council members and Mayor Frank Melton.
But just hours after Owens’ ruling, Melton vowed to fight what he called “irrelevant” records requests recently made by the newspaper.
Read the open records judgmentÂ