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Right-to-know ruling in favor of the Notebook is now a precedent

by Paul Socolar

Last spring’s Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruling in favor of the Notebook in a right-to-know case involving public access to School Reform Commission resolutions is now a legal precedent.

Commonwealth Court Judge Dan Pelligrini ruled last week in support of a motion filed by the Notebook to “report” the decision, meaning that it will now be treated as a precedent in similar cases in Pennsylvania.

In an April decision, Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Renee Cohn Jubelirer upheld a lower court ruling that once the District introduces a resolution before a public meeting of the SRC, it becomes a public record and is accessible under the Right to Know Law.

The case stemmed from an event In September 2009, when the District withdrew -