Legal Opinion
In RE ESTATE OF DuPONT
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided August 17, 2010No. 91 MAP 2009PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Justice SAYLOR.
In this appeal, we consider whether the public has a right of access to the record of proceedings held to declare a person incapacitated, where the record was previously sealed by order of the orphans’ court.
In the 1990s, John E. duPont, one of the heirs of the DuPont fortune, resided at his 800-acre Delaware County estate, known as Foxcatcher Farm. Being a wrestling enthusiast, he founded a wrestling team called Team Foxcatcher, which maintained training and residence facilities at the farm. Following the death of his mother, duPont began acting erratically, culminating…
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