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The Open Meetings Law applies to “public bodies.” This includes any entity that conducts public business and performs a governmental function for the State, a local government or a “public corporation” — such as city councils, town boards, village boards of trustees, school districts and their committees. It also applies to “public organizations” including labor unions, professional associations and other groups.

In Ministers & Missionaries Benefit Board v Snow (2015), a federal interpleader action was filed by a New York retirement and death benefit plan administrator against the estate and beneficiaries of an enrollee in the plan. The plan included a choice-of-law provision that made it governed by New York law.

A case involving the legal or physical control of a child. See child custody.

Commitment: The act of putting someone in custody, usually in jail or a mental institution. See commitment order.

A person who owes money. See creditor.