COM. v. OFFICE OF OPEN RECORDS

No. 67 MAP 2013

103 A.3d 1276 (2014)

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, Appellant v. OFFICE OF OPEN RECORDS, Appellee Eastern Pennsylvania Citizens Against Gambling and James D. Schneller, Intervenor Valley Forge Convention Center Partners, LP, Intervenor.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided November 10, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick Schaffner Cawley, Esq. , Rodney A. Corey, Esq. , James Guthrie Mann, Esq. , Tara Lynn Smith, Esq. , PA House of Representatives, J. Andrew Crompton, Esq. , Claude Joseph Hafner II, Esq. , Donna Memmi Malpezzi, Esq. , PA Senate, for The General Assembly of Pennsylvania, Amicus Curiae.

Robert B. Hoffman, Esq. , Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, Harrisburg, for Greenwood Gaming & Entertainment, Inc., Amicus. Curiae, and Downs Racing, LP, Amicus Curiae.

Adam Gordon Klein, Esq. , Smigel, Anderson & Sacks, L.L.P., Robert L. Knupp, Esq. , Harrisburg, for County Commissioners Association of PA, Amicus Curiae.

Delene Rachel Lantz Johnson, Esq. , Governor's Office of General Counsel, for Office of General Counsel, Amicus Curiae.

Emily J. Leader, Esq. , PA School Boards Association, Inc., for PA School Boards Association, Amicus Curiae.

Melissa Bevan Melewsky, Esq. , Harrisburg, for Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, amicus curiae.

Gayle Chatilo Sproul, Esq. , Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, L.L.P., Philadelphia, for Pennsylvania Freedom of Information Coalition, Amicus Curiae.

Michael David Matthews Fabius, Esq. , Adrian R. King, Esq. , Raymond Adam Quaglia, Esq. , Philadelphia, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews, & Ingersoll, L.L.P., for Valley Forge Convention Center Partners, LP.

James D. Schneller, pro se.

Stephen S. Cook, Esq. , Denise Lynne Miller-Tshudy, Esq. , Richard Douglas Sherman, Esq. , PA Gaming Control Board, for Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.

Charles Rees Brown, Esq. , Nathanael J. Byerly, Esq. , Dena Lefkowitz, Esq. , Terry Lee Mutchler, Esq. , J. Chadwick Schnee, Esq. , Pennsylvania Office of Open Records, for Office of Open Records.

CASTILLE, C.J., SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, McCAFFERY, STEVENS, JJ.


OPINION

In this open-records matter, we are called upon to construe Section 703 of the Right-to-Know Law (RTKL), 65 P.S. § 67.703 ("Section 703"), setting forth the requirements for written RTKL requests for access to public records, to determine proper application of the provision which directs that...

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