Legal Opinion

Aamodt v. Commonwealth, Department of Health

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 6, 1986No. Appeal, No. 371 C.D. 1985PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Senior Judge Barbieri,

Norman O. Aamodt and Marjorie M. Aamodt, Petitioners, appeal here a decision of the Department of Health (Department) which denied their request for information under the Bight to Know Act (Act), Act of June 21, 1957, P.L. 390, as amended, 65 P.S. §§66.L 66.4. The Department denied their request on the *56basis that the information desired did not fall within the right to know law’s definition of “public record.” We affirm.

The following facts are pertinent. Following the Mjarch-28, 1979 accident at the • Unit 2 reactor of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Wiley v. WoodsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1958
  2. A. R. Building Co. v. Pennsylvania Housing Finance AgencyCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1985

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  5. Aronson v. Pennsylvania Department of Labor & IndustryCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1997

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