# Schenck v. TOWNSHIP OF CENTER

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · July 22, 2009 · 601 Pa. 548

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9691856

## Case

- **Full name:** Beverly J. SCHENCK, Appellant v. TOWNSHIP OF CENTER, BUTLER COUNTY, Pennsylvania, Appellee
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** July 22, 2009
- **Citations:** 601 Pa. 548; 975 A.2d 591; 2009 Pa. LEXIS 1326
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Judges:** Castille, Saylor, Eakin, Baer, Todd, McCaffery, Greenspan
- **Cited by:** 10 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9691856

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- 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

## Opinion text

*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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