Cox Enterprises, Inc. v. Board of Trustees of Austin Independent School District

In Cox Enterprises, Inc. v. Board of Trustees of Austin Independent School District, 706 S.W.2d 956 (Tex. 1986), the supreme court considered the advance notice of the subject of governmental bodies' meetings required by the Texas Open Meetings Act. The court concluded that the purpose of this requirement was to provide notice with reasonable specificity of the topic for consideration when the public had a "special interest" in the topic. Id. at 958-59. Listing a general topic such as "personnel" and "litigation" without more did not specifically disclose the subjects to be discussed and thus did not substantially comply with the notice requirement of the open meetings act. Id. at 959-60.