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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 12/28/2006

In Re Milton Hershey School

Citations

  • 911 A.2d 1258
  • 590 Pa. 35

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding school alumni association lacked standing to rescind agreement between school and Office of Attorney General concerning administration of trust and school policies
  • “Nothing in this litigation would 22 affect the association itself; it loses nothing and gains nothing.” (cleaned up)
  • explaining, in a pre-Act case, that an unnamed incidental beneficiary with no power over the trust has no standing
  • “As this is a purely legal question, our standard of review is de novo and scope of review is plenary.”
  • association of alumni of school for orphan children lacked standing to challenge alleged improprieties in administration of school
  • person with special interest in charitable trust may bring action for enforcement of trust

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Cappy, Castille, Newman, Saylor, Eakin, Baer, Baldwin

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