STATE EDUC. ASS'N v. COM., DEPT. OF COMM.

No. 11 MAP 2015 No. 22 MAP 2015.

148 A.3d 142 (2016)

The PENNSYLVANIA STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, by Lynne Wilson, General Counsel, William McGill, F. Darlene Albaugh, Heather Kolanich, Wayne Davenport, Frederick Smith, Jamie McPoyle, Brianna Miller, Valerie Brown, Janet Layton, Korri Brown, Al Reitz, Lisa Lang, Brad Group and Randall Sovisky, Appellants v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, Office of Open Records, and Erik Arneson, Executive Director of the Office of Open Records, Appellees Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees, Ureneus V. Kirkwood, John B. Nye, Stephen M. Vak, and Richard Rowland and Simon Campbell, Intervenors The Pennsylvania State Education Association, by Lynne Wilson, General Counsel, William McGill, F. Darlene Albaugh, Heather Kolanich, Wayne Davenport, Frederick Smith, Jamie McPoyle, Brianna Miller, Valerie Brown, Janet Layton, Korri Brown, Al Reitz, Lisa Lang, Brad Group and Randall Sovisky v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Community and Economic Development, Office of Open Records, and Erik Arneson, Executive Director of the Office of Open Records Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees, Ureneus V. Kirkwood, John B. Nye, Stephen M. Vak, and Richard Rowland and Simon Campbell, Intervenors Cross Appeal of: Office of Open Records, and Erik Arneson, Executive Director of the Office of Open Records.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

DECIDED: October 18, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Francis Canamucio , Richard Hristos Katsifis , Thomas W. Scott , Killian & Gephart, L.L.C., Harrisburg, for Pennsylvania State Education Ass'n, by Lynne Wilson, Gen. Counsel; W. McGill; et al., Appellants.

Kyle E. Applegate , Charles Rees Brown , Nathanael J. Byerly , J. Chadwick Schnee , Office of Open Records, James Patrick Barker , Office of the Atty. Gen., for Office of Open Records, & Erik Arneson, Executive Dir. of the OOR, Appellees.

Arthur F. McNulty , for Department of Community and Economic Development, Appellee.

Joshua D. Bonn , Craig James Staudenmaier , Nauman, Smith, Shissler & Hall, LLP, W. James Young , National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc., for Simon Campbell, Intervenor.

Emily Hannah Edmunds , William W. Warren Jr. , Saul Ewing, LLP, for Pennsylvania Ass'n of School Retirees; Ureneus Kirkwood ; John Nye ; Stephen Vak ; & Richard Rowland , Intervenors.

Scott Everett Coburn , Pennsylvania State Ass'n of Township Supervisors, for Pennsylvania State Ass'n of Township Supervisors, Amicus Curiae.

Melissa Bevan Melewsky , Pennsylvania NewsMedia Ass'n, for Pennsylvania NewsMedia Ass'n, Amicus Curiae.

SAYLOR, C.J., BAER, TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, JJ.


OPINION

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