Judge orders Labrador to pay State Board in Open Meetings Case [Video]

BOISE, Idaho — This article originally appeared in the Idaho Press.

A judge is ordering Attorney General Raúl Labrador to pay more than $242,700 in costs and attorney fees over his unsuccessful lawsuit against the State Board of Education.

Labrador had filed the case against the State Board, which also acts as the University of Idaho’s board of regents, alleging an Open Meetings Law violation in regards to the board’s closed-door meetings held ahead of the public vote to start the process of purchasing the University of Phoenix.

Ada County District Court Judge Jason Scott ordered Labrador’s office to pay $233,362.87 in attorney fees and $9,363.15 in costs in his order filed Tuesday.

“This unnecessary and unsuccessful lawsuit by the Attorney General against his own client took an enormous amount of time and resulted in …