Legal Opinion
Public Opinion v. Chambersburg Area School District
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided February 1, 1995PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIEDMAN, Judge.
Public Opinion, a local newspaper, appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin County (trial court) sustaining the preliminary objections of the Chambers-burg Area School District (School District) and dismissing the newspaper’s Complaint.
On December 29, 1993, eight members of the School District’s Board of Directors (Board) held a public meeting to fill a vacancy caused by the death of one of its members. The voting was done by means of a paper ballot that had been prepared in advance. Each director simply placed a mark *286beside the name of the candidate of…
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