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 -
