Legal Opinion
Whiteland Woods, L.P. v. Township of West Whiteland
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 23, 1999No. 97-1944UnknownCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SCIRICA, Circuit Judge.
In this civil rights action, real estate developer Whiteland Woods, L.P., a subsidiary of Toll Brothers, asserts that its First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated by a township’s refusal to allow videotaping of a meeting of the Township Planning Commission. In a parallel state court action, the township acknowledged that Pennsylvania’s Sunshine Act, 65 Pa. Stat. Ann. §§ 271-86 (West Supp.1998), requires the township to allow videotaping of Planning Commission proceedings and agreed not to enforce the ban at future meetings. Whiteland Woods…
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3Cited by7 opinions
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