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IN RE ESTATE OF DuPONT

No. 91 MAP 2009.

2 A.3d 516 (2010)

In re ESTATE OF John E. DuPONT, an alleged incapacitated person. Appeal of Mark Anthony DeHaven.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided August 17, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geoffrey Paul Huling, Otis W. Erisman, Mary Elizabeth Dixon, White and Williams, L.L.P., Philadelphia, for Mark Anthony DeHaven.

Taras M. Wochok, Michael J. Hawley, Taras M. Wochok & Associates, Ltd., Paoli, for Estate of John E. Du Pont.

BEFORE: CASTILLE, C.J., SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, McCAFFERY, ORIE MELVIN, JJ.

OPINION

Justice SAYLOR.

In this appeal, we consider whether the public has a right of access to the record of proceedings held to declare a person incapacitated, where the record was previously sealed by order of the orphans' court.

In the 1990s, John E. duPont, one of the heirs of the DuPont fortune, resided at his 800-acre Delaware County estate, known as Foxcatcher Farm. Being a wrestling enthusiast, he founded a wrestling team called Team...

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