Feeney v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• stating that such discretion is necessary to “establish[] and sustain[] uniform and consistent legal policy for the Commonwealth.”
• stating that such discretion is necessary to \establish[] and sustain[] uniform and consistent legal policy for the Commonwealth.\
• affirming authority of Attorney General to prosecute appeal over expressed objections of State officers he represents
• In exercising his “common law duty to represent the public interest” the Attorney General “is not constrained by the parameters of the traditional attorney-client relationship.”
• The Attorney General is empowered “to decide matters of legal policy which would normally be reserved to the client in an ordinary attorney-client relationship.”
• action of the Attorney General in deciding to prosecute an appeal, contrary to the expressed objections of State officers whom he represented in District Court proceedings, was consistent with his common law duty to represent the public interest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).