Rutgers University’s board of governors may not have complied with the strict letter of the Open Public Meetings Act in discussing certain athletic department matters behind closed doors, but the violations were minor and there are no available remedies, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

In a 5-0 ruling, McGovern v. Rutgers, A-113-10, the court affirmed Middlesex County Superior Court Judge James Hurley’s decision that an alumnus’s suit against the university be dismissed.

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