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CARBONDALE TWP. ET AL. v. MURRAY ET AL.

No. 2373 C.D. 1980.

64 Pa.Commw. 465 (1982)

Carbondale Township, Louis Rogari, Joseph Cavage and Joseph Brown, Appellants v. Leo A. Murray and The Scranton Times, Appellees.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

February 8, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas P. Kennedy, with him Francis J. Wormuth, Kennedy, Hodin, Wormuth, for appellants.

James J. Haggerty, with him Joseph J. O'Brien, Jr., for appellees.

Argued November 19, 1981, before Judges MENCER, ROGERS and CRAIG, sitting as a panel of three.

OPINION BY JUDGE MENCER, February 8, 1982:

Leo Murray, a reporter for The Scranton Times, a daily newspaper of general circulation, requested certain officials of Carbondale Township to make available to him for inspection and copying the Township's cancelled checks on the Road Account and Payroll Account and the disbursements for the years 1977, 1978, 1979, and 1980.

On July 23, 1980, after repeated requests were denied, Mr. Murray and the newspaper (petitioners...

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