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BRITTAIN v. BEARD

No. 55 MAP 2008.

974 A.2d 479 (2009)

Shannon BRITTAIN, Appellee v. Jeffrey A. BEARD, Ph.D., Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided July 20, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Suzanne Noelle Hueston, Esq., Harrisburg, Debra S. Rand, Esq., PA Dept. of Corrections, for Jeffrey A. Beard, appellant.

Shannon Brittain, appellee pro se.

BEFORE: CASTILLE, C.J., SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, McCAFFERY and GREENSPAN, JJ.

OPINION

Justice BAER.

This is an interlocutory appeal by permission from an order of the Commonwealth Court, which denied cross-motions for summary relief filed by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections ("the Department") and Shannon Brittain ("Brittain"), an inmate of the Pennsylvania penal system.1 Our inquiry is limited to determining whether the Commonwealth Court...

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