STATE POLICE v. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES

No. 44 MAP 2022.

300 A.3d 386 (2023)

PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE, Appellee v. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF PENNSYLVANIA, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided: August 22, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth Mary Casey, Esq. , Dorothy Alicia Hickok, Esq. , Mark David Taticchi, Esq. , Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Andrew Chapman Christy, Esq. , ACLU, for Appellant.

John Joseph Herman, Esq. , Brendan Joseph O'Malley, Esq. , Pennsylvania State Police, for Appellee.

Jonathan Howard Feinberg, Esq. , Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg & Lin, LLP, for Amici Curiae Alliance for Police Accountability, The National Police Accountability Project, Thomas Merton Center.

Paula Knudsen Burke, Esq. , Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, for Amici Curiae Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

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

TODD, C.J., DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, BROBSON, JJ.


OPINION

This appeal arises under the Right-to-Know Law ("RTKL").1 We consider whether the Commonwealth Court abused its discretion when—sua sponte—it issued a remand to the Office of Open Records ("OOR") for additional fact-finding after that court...

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