Lewis v. THORNBURGH

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

This case, in the nature of an equity proceeding addressed to our original jurisdiction, involves the efforts of petitioner Senator Lewis, Minority Chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate of Pennsylvania, to obtain from the Governor of the Commonwealth certain personnel and fiscal information about all the lawyers on the public payroll or hired by the Executive Branch on public contract.

In Lewis v. Thornburgh, 68 Pa. Commonwealth Ct. 157, 448 A.2d 680 (1982) our court en banc ruled upon the respondents’ preliminary objections. We sustained a preliminary…