Bowling v. Office of Open Records

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Bowling v. Office of Open Records, 609 Pa. 265 (Pa. 2011)
15 A.3d 427; 2011 Pa. LEXIS 557

Bowling v. Office of Open Records

Opinion of the Court

ORDER

PER CURIAM.

AND NOW, this 8th day of March, 2011, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issues, as stated by Petitioner, are:

1. Whether Final Determinations rendered by the OOR are entitled to a deferential standard of review, for *266which the scope of the court’s review is limited to the record of the OOR?
2. Whether the level of judicial review imposed by the Commonwealth Court, which shall be applied in future appeals of OOR Final Determinations, was proper when the standard and scope of review do not effectuate the statutory process set forth in the RTKL, do not comport with accepted principles of statutory construction of the current RTKL or the process followed under the RTKL’s predecessor, and the level of review does not account for the creation of a new Commonwealth agency as an independent fact-finder?

Reference

Full Case Name
Brian BOWLING v. OFFICE OF OPEN RECORDS, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, Intervenor
Cited By
37 cases
Status
Published