Legal Opinion
LaValle v. OFFICE OF GEN. COUNSEL OF COM.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided April 20, 2001No. 18 M.D. Appeal Dkt. 2000PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SAYLOR, Justice.
This appeal concerns a request for access to a document pursuant to the Right to Know Act, lodged with the Office of General Counsel by two members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly.
In December, 1997, and February, 1998, the Honorable Gerald J. LaValle, a member of the Senate of Pennsylvania, directed several letters to the Office of General Counsel (“OGC”) seeking access to a report that had been prepared by Ernst & Young LLP, an accounting consultant to the Commonwealth, Department of Transportation (“PennDOT”). Ernst & Young had been retained in connection with…
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