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PSEA. v. COM., DEPT. OF COMMUNITY DEV.

No. 59 MAP 2010.

50 A.3d 1263 (2012)

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 Terry Mutchler, 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.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided August 21, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrea L. Bowman , Governor's Office of General Counsel. Joshua Keesler Harman , for Amicus Curiae, Office of General Counsel.

Emily Hannah Bensinger , Amy Clement Foerster , William W. Warren, Jr. , Saul Ewing LLP, Harrisburg, for PA Association of School Retirees, Ureneus V. Kirkwood, John B. Nye, Stephen M. Vak, Richard Rowland.

W. James Young , National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc., Pittsburgh, for Simon Campbell.

Thomas W. Scott , Killian & Gephart, L.L.P., Harrisburg, Katherine Marie Voye , PA State Education Association (PSEA), for Pennsylvania State Education Association, et al.

John R. Bielski , Nancy B.G. Lassen , Ralph J. Teti , Alaine S. Williams , Deborah R. Willig , Willig, Williams & Davidson, Philadelphia, for Appellant Amicus Curiae, Council 13, AFSCME, et al.

Nathanael J. Byerly , Terry Lee Mutchler , Office of Open Records, for Office of Open Records and Terry Mutchler, Executive Director of the Office of Open Records.

Steven Jay Fishman , PA Department of Community and Economic Development, for Department of Community and Economic Development.

Susan Jane Forney , PA Office of Attorney General, Harrisburg, for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Dena Lefkowitz , J Chadwick Schnee , Office of Open Records, for Office of Open Records.

Claudia Davidson , for Appellee Amicus Curiae, SEIU Healthcare PA, SEIU, CTW.

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

OPINION

Justice SAYLOR.

This direct appeal concerns the Commonwealth Court's jurisdiction over a suit brought by public school employees for injunctive and declaratory relief against the Office of Open Records, seeking to protect the employees' home addresses from disclosure under the Right to Know Law.

I. Background

Appellants are individual school employees from multiple school districts and the Pennsylvania State Education Association...

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