CHESTER WATER v. DEPT. OF COMMUNITY DEV.

No. 44 EAP 2019 No. 45 EAP 2019.

249 A.3d 1106 (2021)

CHESTER WATER AUTHORITY, Appellant, v. PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, Appellee Chester Water Authority, Appellant v. Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided: April 29, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Megan Anne Guernsey , Andrew Kabnick Garden , Conrad O'Brien PC, Kevin Dooley Kent , Philadelphia, for Appellant.

Scott William Longwell , J. Michael Adams, Jr. , Sean Christopher Campbell , Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development, Harrisburg, Justin Andrew Zimmerman , for Appellee.

Zachary Nicholas Gordon , Patrick Kennedy Cavanaugh , Del Sole Cavanaugh Stroyd, LLC, Pittsburgh, for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Appellant Amicus Curiae.

Scott Everett Coburn , Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors, Enola, for Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors, Appellee Amicus Curiae.

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


OPINION

In these consolidated appeals arising under the law generally requiring public access to governmental records in Pennsylvania, the lead issue is whether a statutory deliberative-process exception extends to records exchanged between a Commonwealth agency and private...

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