Chester Cmty. Charter Sch. v. Hardy ex rel. Phila. Newspaper, LLC

• Decision Date: 28 August 2013
• Parties: CHESTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL, Petitioner v. Daniel HARDY, On Behalf of Philadelphia Newspaper, LLC d/b/a The Philadelphia Inquirer, Respondents.
• Court: Pennsylvania Supreme Court

74 A.3d 118

CHESTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL, Petitioner

v.Daniel HARDY, On Behalf of Philadelphia Newspaper, LLC d/b/a The Philadelphia Inquirer, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Aug. 28, 2013.

OPINION TEXT STARTS HEREPetition for Allowance of Appeal, No. 224 MAL 2012, from the Published Opinion and Order of the Commonwealth Court at No. 1427 CD 2010, at 38 A.3d 1079 (Pa.Cmwlth.2012) (Pellegrini, Simpson, Leavitt, JJ.), filed February 29, 2012, affirming the Order of the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas at No. 2009–7473 (Kenney, J.), filed June 21, 2010.

ORDER

PER CURIAM.

AND NOW, this 28th day of August, 2013, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED, LIMITED to the following issue as framed by Petitioner:

Does the Right–to–Know Law preclude a local agency from arguing on appeal to the Office of Open Records and to subsequentcourts the bases for denying access to a requested record that were not specifically cited in the agency's initial denial of the request for access?