Legal Opinion
Smith Butz, LLC v. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided June 17, 2016PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY
Senior Judge ROCHELLE S. FRIEDMAN.
Smith Butz, LLC (SB) petitions for review of the September 17, 2015, final determination of the Office of Open Records (OOR), which dismissed SB’s appeal from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) open records officer’s (Records Officer) decision informing SB that it did not have in its possession, custody, or control the records requested under the Right-to-Know Law (RTKL).1 We affirm.
On June 11, 2015, the Records Officer received SB’s RTKL request2 seeking:
All records associated with [the] August 30, 2010 Notice of…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Bowling v. Office of Open RecordsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2013
- Governor's Office v. Office of Open Records, Aplt.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2014
- McGowan v. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental ProtectionCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2014
- Moore v. OFFICE OF OPEN RECORDSCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2010
- Hodges v. Pennsylvania Department of HealthCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2011
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Uniontown Newspapers, Inc., d/b/a The Herald Standard and C. Haines v. PA Dept. of CorrectionsCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2016
- City of Harrisburg v. J. Prince, Esq.Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2018
- W. McKelvey, PennLive, and The Patriot News v. Office of Attorney GeneralCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2017
- A. Hodges v. DOC (OOR)Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2024
- B.L. Wishnefsky v. PA DOCCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2019
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