Commonwealth v. Kauffman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting, with respect to RTKL, that “the fact that the legislature excluded certain documents from public inspection does not mean that the legislature intended to bar the use of such information in judicial proceedings.”
• government is required to turn over subpoenaed documents in state court civil action even if disclosure is not required by RTKL
• “the privilege must be claimed, and a failure to claim the privilege waives it”
• “the privilege must be claimed, and a failure to claim the privilege waives it”
• “In the instant case, the Commonwealth did not assert either a common law governmental/executive privilege or an informer’s privilege. Therefore, they were not considered by the trial court.... The failure to assert a privilege constitutes a waiver thereof.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ben v. Schwartz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-04-21· cited 216×
• Sprague v. Walter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-02-01· cited 99×
• Law Office of Douglas T. Harris v. Philadelphia Waterfront Partners, LP
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-09-22· cited 27×
• Com. v. Cook, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-04-07· cited 27×
• Starr v. State Board of Medicine
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-11-04· cited 9×
• Strain v. Simpson House
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-02-27· cited 7×
• Mitchell v. Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1994-01-28· cited 1×
• Gregury, J. v. Greguras, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-09-20
• Ben v. Schwartz
  Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas· 1996-05-16
• Opitz v. Bowman
  Pike County Court of Common Pleas· 1999-07-30
• Toland, C. v. PBPP, Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-10-06

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Roviaro v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-03-25· cited 3,599×
• Scher v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1938-12-05· cited 370×
• Duplan Corporation v. Deering Milliken, Inc.
  D. South Carolina· 1974-12-19· cited 231×
• Frankenhauser v. Rizzo
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1973-03-13· cited 184×
• Vogel v. Gruaz
  Supreme Court· 1884-02-04· cited 157×
• Westinghouse Electric Corporation v. City of Burlington, Vermont
  D.C. Circuit· 1965-06-09· cited 134×
• Worthington v. Scribner
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1872-03-15· cited 82×
• Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. Local 1942, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Afl-Cio
  Seventh Circuit· 1989-02-28· cited 81×
• Wood v. Breier
  E.D. Wisconsin· 1972-01-04· cited 76×
• Crawford v. Dominic
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1979-04-26· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-09-27· cited 27×
• Lewis v. Roux Trucking Corp.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1927-12-28· cited 21×
• Ronnie Holman v. Steve Cayce
  Sixth Circuit· 1989-05-02· cited 19×
• Grodjesk v. Faghani
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1986-10-02· cited 19×
• Daniels v. Hadley Memorial Hospital
  District of Columbia· 1975-09-12· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-08· cited 10×
• Pittsburgh Board of Public Education v. MJN
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-04-22· cited 7×
• Shultz v. Bd. of S., Jackson Twp.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-03-11· cited 7×
• Conlon v. Dean
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1968-11-29· cited 5×