Opinion

Schenck v. TOWNSHIP OF CENTER

  • 601 Pa. 548
  • 975 A.2d 591
  • 2009 Pa. LEXIS 1326
Court
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Filed
Jul 22, 2009
Status
Published
On the bench
Castille, Saylor, Eakin, Baer, Todd, McCaffery, Greenspan
Cited by
10 cases
Authority
More cited than 70.9%

holding 10 that this “Court may affirm the trial court for any reason so long as the basis of [the] decision is clear.”

How later courts described this case

  • holding 10 that this “Court may affirm the trial court for any reason so long as the basis of [the] decision is clear.”
  • recognizing the breadth of the ethics-based duty of confidentiality in Pa. R.P.C. 1.6
  • Saylor, J. dissenting from dismissal of appeal as improvidently granted, joined by Castille, C.J.
  • “As to the availability of in camera review, I agree with the many jurisdictions that have had little difficulty recognizing the availability of such a procedure in the discovery and public disclosure arenas.”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

*549

ORDER

PER CURIAM.

AND NOW, this 22nd day of July, 2009, the appeal is dismissed as improvidently granted.

Justice SAYLOR files a dissenting statement in which Chief Justice CASTILLE joins.

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