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PUBLIC UTILITY COM'N v. ANDREW SEDER

No. 52 MAP 2015, No. 53 MAP 2015

139 A.3d 165 (2016)

PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION v. ANDREW SEDER/THE TIMES LEADER. WNEP-TV, Channel 16; Times Shamrock; Times News, LLC; The Associated Press; Reading Eagle Company; PPL Electric Utilities Corporation; Pocono Mountain Media Group; Philadelphia Media Network, LLC, PA Media Group; Lancaster Newspaper, Inc.; Calkins Media Inc., Intervenors, Appeal of Andrew Seder/The Times Leader; Associated Press; Calkins Media Inc.; Lancaster Newspaper Inc.; PA Media Group; Philadelphia Media Network, LLC; Pocono Mountains Media Group; Reading Eagle Company; and Times News, LLC. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission v. Scott Kraus/The Morning Call. WNEP-TV, Channel 16; Times Shamrock; Times News, LLC; The Associated Press; Reading Eagle Company; PPL Electric Utilities Corporation; Pocono Mountain Media Group; Philadelphia Media Network, LLC, PA Media Group; Lancaster Newspaper, Inc.; Calkins Media Inc., Intervenors, Appeal of Scott Kraus/The Morning Call; Associated Press; Calkins Media Inc.; Lancaster Newspaper Inc.; PA Media Group; Philadelphia Media Network, LLC; Pocono Mountains Media Group; Reading Eagle Company; and Times News, LLC.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Resubmitted January 20, 2016.

Decided May 25, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donna M.J. Clark, Esq. , Energy Association of Pennsylvania, for Energy Association of Pennsylvania, amicus curiae.

Melissa Bevan Melewsky, Esq. , Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, for Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

Joshua D. Bonn, Esq. , Harrisburg, Craig James Staudenmaier, Esq. , Nauman, Smith, Shissler & Hall, L.L.P., for Andrew Seder/The Times Leader; Scott Kraus/The Morning Call, Assoc. Press; Calkins Media, Inc., et al.

Steven K. Brainbridge, Esq. , Bohdan R. Pankiw, Esq. , Harrisburg, Eric Albert Rohrbaugh, Esq. , PA Public Utility Commission, for Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.

Nathaniel J. Byerly, Esq. , Pennsylvania Office of Open Records, for Office of Open Records.

James John Kutz, Esq. , David Bruce MacGregor, Esq. , Christopher Trent Wright, Esq. , Post & Schell, P.C., Paul Edwin Russell, Esq. , PPL Services Corporation, Allentown, for PPL Electric Utilities Corporation.

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

OPINION

This appeal presents the issue of whether Subsection 335(d) of the Public Utility Code ("Code"), 66 Pa.C.S. § 335(d), requires the Public Utility Commission ("PUC") to disclose a "tip letter" and an investigative file associated with a settlement agreement entered into by...

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