MILLER v. COUNTY OF CENTRE

No. 98 MAP 2016. No. 99 MAP 2016.

173 A.3d 1162 (2017)

Stacy Parks MILLER, District Attorney, Appellant v. COUNTY OF CENTRE; Sean P. McGraw; Andrew Shubin, Attorney at Law, d/b/a/ The Law Office of Andrew Shubin; Bernard F. Cantorna, Esquire, Bryant & Cantorna, P.C.; and John Does 1-5, Appellees. Stacy Parks Miller, District Attorney, Appellant v. County of Centre; Sean P. McGraw; Andrew Shubin, Attorney at Law, d/b/a/ The Law Office of Andrew Shubin; Bernard F. Cantorna, Esquire, Bryant & Cantorna, P.C.; and John Does 1-5, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided: November 22, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David R. Crowley, Esq. , Centre County Public Defender's Office, for Amicus Curiae Public Defender Association of Pennsylvania.

Joel L. Frank, Esq. , Scot Russel Withers, Esq. , Lamb McErlane, PC, for Amicus Curiae Pennsylvania Office of Open Records.

Casey Ann Gillespie, Esq. , Gillespie, Miscavige, & Ferdinand, L.L.C., for Amicus Curiae County Commissioner's Association of Pennsylvania.

Melissa Bevan Melewsky, Esq. , Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, for Amicus Curiae Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association and ACLU of Pennsylvania.

Ronald D. Barber, Esq. , for Participants Sean P. McGraw , Andrew Shubin , Attorney at Law, D/B/A/ The Law Office of Andrew Shubin.

John Timothy Hinton Jr., Esq. , for Participants Bernard F. Cantorna, Esquire , and Bryant & Cantorna, P.C.

Robert J. Gillespie Jr., Amicus Curiae, pro se.

Bruce Lee Castor Jr., Esq. , Rogers & Associates, LLC, Appellant.

Mary Lou Maierhofer, Esq. , Margolis Edelstein, Craig James Staudenmaier, Esq. , Joshua D. Bonn, Esq. , Nauman, Smith, Shissler & Hall, LLP, for Appellees.

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


OPINION

In this appeal, we decide whether the office of Stacy Parks Miller ("Parks Miller"), the District Attorney of Centre County, Pennsylvania, is an "office or entity of the unified judicial system" and thus properly classified as a "judicial agency" for purposes of application of Pennsylvania...

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