FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — An appeals court says the University of Kentucky failed to follow open-records law in a dispute with the campus newspaper over its pursuit of documents in a sexual harassment investigation.

A three-judge Court of Appeals panel ruled Friday that the state's flagship university had failed to comply with the open-records law "in any meaningful way."

The long-running case stems from the student newspaper's pursuit of documents in a sexual harassment investigation involving a former professor.

The university had refused to release the documents.

The state attorney general's of...